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I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld. By Jeri Smith-Ready Ghost Thought Boyfriend Dreamworld Living

As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us. By J.m. Coetzee Silence Snake Hoping Ghost Question

Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don't they? By Kelly Link Alive Ghost Inside

"I'll carry him. We can't leave drag marks or anything, and we'll need to bury him right away, so no dogs find him.""Bury who?" said a voice beside me.I jumped so high, my heart rammed into my throat. "Chloe?" Derek said again. "It's L-Liam. His ghost." Liam stopped. "Ghost?" He looked at me, then at his body, on the ground. He swore. By Kelley Armstrong Chloe Bury Ghost Carry Him

What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls! By Kerstin Gier Ghost Hardsdale Honorable James Augustus

A ghost which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else. By Robert M. Pirsig Meaninglessness Ghost Calls Rationality Appearance

Old ghosts, the shadows of might-have-beens. By Cassandra Clare Ghosts Shadows

another freaking ghost hurt me. By Apryl Baker Freaking Ghost Hurt

Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm. By Rebecca Maizel Ghosts Storm Misleading Make Thoughts

If there are ghosts on this earth, they are formed by the things you cannot utter, and they'll outlive the black in your teeth, burn hotter than any hole in your stomach. Untold stories take on lives of their own. They silently eat dinner with you. Still as shoe trees, they stand over you, watching you sleep. They'll make you pace all-night By Adam Johnson Earth Utter Teeth Burn Stomach

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural. By William Shakespeare Murder Ghost Foul Strange Unnatural

Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone.All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.Each ghost comes unbidden from the misty grounds of dream and silence.Our rational minds say, "No, it isn't."But another part, an older part, echoes always softly in the dark, "Yes, but it could be. By Diana Gabaldon Dark Hold Back Torch Light

Ghosts," Doktor Messerli continued, "aren't always the spirits of the human dead bound to the earth. A ghost can be the residual feeling that follows an act you have accomplished but feel bad about. Or the act itself. Something you've been or done that you cannot escape. By Jill Alexander Essbaum Doktor Messerli Continued Earth Spirits

All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost. By Poe Ballantine Life Ghost Realized Conversation

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die. By Leanna Renee Hieber Ghost Demon Assure Spirit World

You are a ghost, like you were a ghost before because you were never here, but everywhere at once, i wish i could talk like my eyes can see, word you with what i smell, knock your socks off with aromas of a tiny metropolis tourists only catch glimpses of at the Wharf. A thousand LSD trips and middle-aged folks remembering Timothy Leary playing like a Pied Piper leading them all off to jump off the pier. By Ana Castillo Ghost Wharf Word Smell Knock

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and remembered nightmares. By Ilsa J. Bick Nightmares Ghost Land Phantoms Remembered

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around. By Julian Schnabel Ghost Work Thinking Leave

When you become a ghost feel free to haunt me. By Joseph Gordon-Levitt Ghost Feel Free Haunt

I hope I'm the ghost that belongs to her. By Courtney Summers Hope Ghost Belongs

Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a city or country will just happen to look in the mirror at the same time, and from then on there was a city in the sky, as all cities are if we consider that the sky reaches to the ground, and this city, too, thought it was alive, and the candles walked off by themselves. By Cole Swensen Ghost Time City Box Grief

Most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layeredwill make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the windowdo what faces usually do they open onto a genetic historythat looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive By Cole Swensen Fire Words Ghost Pieces Mica

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight. By Alice Hoffman Ghosts Sight Move Corners Human

Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself? By Marjorie Bowen Oneself Ghost

Soon, the whole world would be searching for herLinh Cinder.A deformed cyborg with a missing foot.A Lunar with a stolen identity.A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go.But they will be looking for a ghost. By Marissa Meyer Lunar Ghost World Searching Herlinh

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don't last that long. They're more like mayflies; they're born, big and gleaming, and then they fly around, buzzing like crazy before they fall to the floor, dead, about twenty four hours later. By Scarlett Thomas Ghosts Live Ideas Past Puppets

You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars. By Akshay Vasu Ghost Filled Stardust Wearing Cape

Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else. By Marie Rutkoski Ghost Haunt

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. By Caitlin R. Kiernan Ghosts Good Echoing Time Memories

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around. By James Herbert Ghost

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body. By Dada Bhagwan Life Mind Speech Body Worldly

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I questionwhether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. By Paul Auster Ghost Exist Walk World Questionwhether

The girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeksand the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in atrembling voice: It's the ghost! By Gaston Leroux Eyes Nose Voice Ghost Girl

Watch your pets eyes they can see the ghosts all around you. By Darren James Watch Pets Eyes Ghosts

...most ghosts are a rag and a bone and a hank of hair at best--a memory fragment stuck on continual loop, just dust and PKE and water-vapour with no real "there" there. Leftover fragments of psychic energy deluded into believing in their own personality; an echo cobbled together from memory and pain, with no self-awareness as such 'cept what we give them. Survival instinct, with no survival. By Gemma Files Pke Loop Real Memory Ghosts

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all. By Gaston Leroux Heaven Ghost Earth Man

If we meet in person, then you can't call me Ghost anymore. I won't be a ghost. I'll be real. By Jessica Love Ghost Person Anymore Meet Call

I believe in spirits, not ghosts. By Kendra Wilkinson Spirits Ghosts

Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go ... By Stephen King Ghost Hell Big Hotel People

There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams. By Peter Rollins Towns Deep Sense Presence Love

I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so. By Leigh Bardugo Ghost Invisible Thought Ship Died

In the name of a god who was always a ghost By Carl-John X. Veraja Ghost God

We begin as children imagining and fearing ghosts. By degrees, through our long lives, we come to be the very ghosts inhabiting the lost landscapes of our childhood. By Joyce Carol Oates Ghosts Begin Children Imagining Fearing

A ghost doesn't just move normally. They have this freaky way of zipping across the room. You see the ghost, you blink, and then it's suddenly behind you or up in your face and you scream and dig your nails into your boyfriend's knee and the he has marks there for like a week and I hope you're putting out for all that goddamn pain you put him through when you were the one who picked the movie even when you knew it was going to be scary. By Dennis Liggio Move Ghost Room Freaky Zipping

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo? By John Connolly Boo Ghost Figure Added Uncertainly

I am haunted by human By Markus Zusak Human Haunted

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased. By A.s. Byatt Emily Jesse Life Understood Departed

A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all. By David Wong Face Ghost Sighting Brain Put

Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet. By Thomm Quackenbush Ghosts Meet Loneliest People

If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one By John Flanagan Ghost Disrespect Areor

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping. By Doug Dillon Sleeping Ghosts Felt Presences Simply

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers. By Eve Chase Momma Woods Summers Ghosts Long

In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity; an indistinct being, a thing which is not something! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Ghost Entity Big City Walk

Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of the dead and project them onto shadows and sounds, trying to make sense of loss by assigning it a new shape. Ghosts aren't real. By Carrie Arcos Memory Pieces Ghosts Forget Makers

Who knows if there are ghosts (sorry, Grandma) or just the living, breathing memories of your loved ones, inside you, speaking to you, trying to get your attention by any means necessary? By Jandy Nelson Grandma Ghosts Living Breathing Inside

I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion. By George R R Martin Ghosts Remembering Yesterday Spend Half

I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories. By John Robert Colombo Ghosts Ghost Stories

No, little one, George's ghost won't come back. Human beings don't have souls. No soul, no ghost. Simple.""How can you say that?" protested Mopple. "We don't know whether humans have souls or not.""Every lamb knows that your soul is in your sense of smell. And human beings don't have very good noses." Maude herself had an excellent sense of smell, and often thought about the problem of souls and noses."So you'd only see a very small ghost. Nothing to be afraid of. By Leonie Swann George Ghost Back Souls Smell

Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough. By Ari Berk Wear Endures Room Table Ghost

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it! By Eugene O'neill Ghost Money Haunt Lessn Lose

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it? By Paul Darrow Ghost Story Back Terrible Disappointing

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. By Aldous Huxley Dead Frozen Ghost Light

I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people. By Cher People Ghosts Love Prefer

Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world By Cassandra Clare Ghosts Memories World Carry Love

Help for the Haunted By Donna Kent Haunted

With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our component selves), lifts them casually out of the well of the pastthe well wherein nothing is lost, the deep well of forgetfulness, and remembranceand tosses them mockingly on the glassy table surface of our consciousness. There we are forced to consider them. There we are forced to regard, analyze, and re-understand. By Heinrich Robert Zimmer Dreams Exact Lifts Lost Forgetfulness

Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk. By Neil Gaiman Afterimage Decided Ghost Mind Moment

even though I'm safe. I see his ghostly reflection moving By Penny Wylder Safe Moving Ghostly Reflection

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves. By Jerome K. Jerome Memory Ghostraiser Shadows Rare Dead

I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife. By Marlon Wayans Ghost Afterlife Confirm

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral. By Simona Panova Grave Ghost Soul Cry Funeral

If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they've been. If I see a city I see it's living ghostliness - the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it's needs and its discomforts locked in apartments. By Dionne Brand Ghost Air Ghostliness Hands City

Spooky action at a distance. By Albert Einstein Spooky Distance Action

A high-pitched sound, like steam escaping from a kettle whistles through the dark room. But nobody's making tea. We both turn toward the source of the eerie noise.A weak stream of unearthly light seeps through the window near the corner of the room and pours onto the floor. Its consistency seems to lie somewhere between a liquid and a solid, like mercury, only blue. Out of the gleaming, wobbly puddle, a phosphorescent vapor rises up. The ghost we thought was Daniel materializes and looms over us for two seconds before he lunges and wraps his hands around Wyatt's neck. By Alyson Larrabee Sound Highpitched Steam Escaping Kettle

My work is in itself a ghost of my vision. By Thomas Demand Vision Work Ghost

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with usthat is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditionsthey enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ... By Elizabeth Bowen Ghosts Hope Fancy Usthat Reach

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone. By Rae Armantrout Swarm Ghosts Person Undone Speak

Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know. By Christopher Pike Ghost People Call Life Dead

I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to what is happening here. I've definitely been in a place where I've felt some energy that someone was watching me. By Jeordie White Energy Ghosts Found Home Personal

We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves. By Diana Gabaldon Years Memory Standing Doorway Mirror

But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person. By David Mitchell Ghost Story Background Person Foreground

Mysterious though the ghost may at first appear, he will always be more easily explained than the dismal story in which malevolent people have tried to picture two brothers killing each other who had worshiped each other all their lives. Believe me, etc. By Gaston Leroux Mysterious Lives Ghost Easily Explained

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.(Joshua Malina, Sports Night) By Aaron Sorkin Large Humility Joshua Malina Sports

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense. By Tabitha King Literature Past Ghost Metaphor Weight

If a ghost was a recording of a memory, as some believed, and Wasp pulled back the curtain from the third alcove on the right, she might find the wide-eyed bloody-handed ghost of herself, hugging her knees and shivering, trying to unremember the sound of her little dagger sinking hilt-deep into girlflesh, the day she earned her name. By Nicole Kornher-Stace Ghost Wasp Memory Believed Hugging

Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.' I By Max Porter Lawns Satisfaction Sleep Trees Taking

Okay. When he comes, you can see him?""Yes. I can hear him, too. And he, uh ... "She brushed the bandage on the side of her skull. I looked at her in bewilderment. Was she serious?"He hits you?""Yes.""With his fist?""Yes."John looked up from his coffee indignantly. "Man, what a dick!"I did roll my eyes this time and glared at John once they stopped. I don't know if you've ever seen a ghost, but I'm guessing that if you did, the thing didn't run over and punch you in the face. I'm guessing that's never happened to any of your friends, either. By David Wong Yes John Guessing Looked Man

We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest. By Shane Koyczan Rest Answers Simple Haunt Ghosts

A wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions, By Yann Martel Corpse Functions Wandering Bundle Mindless

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. By Khalil Sake Books Uncanny Markings Numerous

Blood! ... Blood! ... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous! By Gaston Leroux Blood Thing Dangerous Good Ghost

On Pembroke Road look out for my ghost, Dishevelled with shoes untied, Playing through the railings with little children Whose children have long since died. By Richard Heinzl Dishevelled Playing Pembroke Road Ghost

Some ghosts are women,neither abstract nor pale,their breasts as limp as killed fish.Not witches, but ghostswho come, moving their useless armslike forsaken servants.Not all ghosts are women,I have seen others;fat, white-bellied men,wearing their genitals like old rags.Not devils, but ghosts.This one thumps barefoot, lurchingabove my bed.But that isn't all.Some ghosts are children.Not angels, but ghosts;curling like pink tea cupson any pillow, or kicking,showing their innocent bottoms, wailingfor Lucifer. By Anne Sexton Ghosts Lucifer Fat Witches Moving

If one day you see a ghost somewhere, you must know that it is your own mind! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Mind Day Ghost

I can do pretty much anything. A ghost has that freedom. By Gillian Flynn Pretty Freedom Ghost

She's been a ghost for years now, anyway, her heart full of the forgotten dead. By Sarah J. Maas Dead Ghost Years Heart Full

I definitely believe in ghosts. By Jenna Dewan Ghosts

Did you ever feel a creeping,That awoke you from your sleeping,That made your pulses flutter and bristled all your hair;While a horrid stealthy crawlingPrevented you from calling,And something seemed to tell you that a ghost was coming there? By Amelia B. Edwards Hair Feel Creepingthat Awoke Sleepingthat

Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch . . . Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat . . . Why By Amor Towles Count Ghost Thought Hall Moved

He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember. By Brenda Sutton Rose Cigarette Blows Draw Smoky Catch