Certain Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil) a somewhat…

— Anonymous

Haunted by darkness, scared to start to stumble, Tears that just cannot fall, words hidden within a mumble.

— MacKenzie Cheesman

“Over the course of my life I've been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where things still…

— Kendare Blake

“The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.”

— Corban Addison

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

“Even in memory, I am terrified by those solitudes! When foul weather is unleashed in that part of the world, the rain seems kin…

— Pablo Neruda

“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses…

— Marcel Proust

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable,…

— Seneca the Younger

“The gardener who grew ghosts learned that grief is not a problem to solve. It is soil to tend.”

— Zain Omarjee

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

— John Newlove