Childhood Quote by Yolanda A. Reid

“Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.”

— Leila Howland

“Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most”

— Dinaw Mengestu

“She imagined people picking up the newspapers she dropped through their doors, reading about a world they never visited. For the first time it…

— Catherine O'Flynn

“Children are only terrified of invisible ghosts. But some human beings are just as terrible as these creatures.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”

— Cassandra Clare

“Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?”

— Laura Lam

“do you know what ghosts are? they are sad, evicted things. memories without homes”

— Paul Prospero

“There was no doubt even for a child as young as I'd been, that she'd raised his ghost. I knew then, the only thing…

— Kimberly Brock

As a child I loved ghost stories.

— Rebecca Hall

“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she…

— Wilkie Collins

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”

— Thomm Quackenbush