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Quotes About Ghosts

But if you start talking to ghosts and so on in front of other people, they think you're a liar or just showing off. That's if you're lucky. If you aren't, which is most of the time, they think you're totally crazy.
~ Kerstin Gier
defend Miss Haller from the Nazis. In the final chapter, the ghosts saw off the spies and word came through that Miss Haller's father had been smuggled out of Germany. Gillian
~ Kim Newman
Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.
~ Carmen Posadas
My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth, what need would we have for grief? Scary as it is, it's what we hope for. How else can we go on living?
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
We lie buried together during the night and haunt each other by day.
~ Carrie Fisher
...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.
~ George H. Boker
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 and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?
~ George R.R. Martin
If there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her. It was the living men she feared.
~ George R.R. Martin
It was different when there was a Stark in Winterfell. But the old wolf's dead and young one's gone south to play the game of thrones, and all that's left us is the ghosts.
~ George R.R. Martin
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.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ghosts," Irri muttered. "Terrible ghosts. We must not stay here, Khaleesi, this is their place." "I fear no ghosts.
~ George R.R. Martin
Bran was relieved . . . but disappointed too. So long as there was magic, anything could happen. Ghosts could walk, trees could talk, and broken boys could grow up to be knights. "But there isn't," he said aloud in the darkness of his bed. "There's no magic, and the stories are just stories." And he would never walk, nor fly, nor be a knight.
~ George R.R. Martin
Then the trees closed in around her, black as pitch and full of ghosts and memories.
~ George R.R. Martin
Stannis Baratheon turned away from the window, and the ghosts who moved upon the southern sea.
~ George R.R. Martin
And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.
~ Georges Simenon
So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
~ Sally Field
Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked.
~ J.D. Robb
Porque no los contaron en el último censo y por consiguiente no tienen números y por consiguiente no existen. Son fantasmas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and let the ghosts fly their asses off
~ Jack Kerouac
I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
~ Brandon Flowers
I've survived revolution, war, and over a decade on this continent, " the Burgrave reflected. "But by all the ghosts of the hundred emperors, I think fatherhood will finally do me in.
~ Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire
Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.
~ Tana French