Air Quote by Philip Pullman

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

— Philip Pullman

“I escaped onto the wall, a painted ghost trapped in a jar. I stood back to look at it and I knew the sad…

— Cath Crowley

“Callum didn’t need a lifetime’s experience of seeing ghosts to know that the creature was not of this world. For a long moment, he…

— Adam Slater

“Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn. The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room…

— George R.R. Martin

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

— Anonymous

“At length he spoke; without moving or lifting up his face. “Here again!” he said. “Here again,” replied the Phantom. “I see you in…

— Arnold Bennett

“He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of…

— James Joyce

“Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And…

— Cole Swensen

“Their eyes wide open, they stared into empty nothingness. There was silence everywhere. Apart from a few twinkling of stars, masses of dark void…

— Mehreen Ahmed

“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the…

— Robert Penn Warren

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting…

— Joshua Sylvester