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Quotes About Haunting

And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.
~ Alyson Noel
In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burned into baking asphalt.
~ Alyson Richman
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
~ Kate Atkinson
'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.
~ Tom Goodman-Hill
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'
~ Ben Barnes
What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.
~ Richard Siken
There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
~ Richelle Mead
Niets is een grotere kwelling dan een herinnering die net buiten de grenzen van het geheugen zweeft
~ Roald Dahl
Chen didn't get back to the lab until almost six, only to find Harriet haunting the gun room like the Ghost of Christmas Future. Pike was certain to be impatient with the delay and no doubt would be growing angrier and angrier—at John.
~ Robert Crais
If everything in a dream were realistic, it would have no power over us; if everything were unreal, we would feel less involved in its pleasures and fears. Its fusion of the two is what makes it haunting.
~ Robert Greene
A city of harelipped ghosts
~ Khaled Hosseini
You look like the vamp who bled the cat.
~ Kim Harrison
Memory is a haunting.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Memory is a haunting. You remember times you liked, and you want something like them. But you can only get new things. So I try to want what I get. It isn't obvious how to do it.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
If you ignored the benign ghost that haunted the place and the witch who lived inside, it was practically the picture of normalcy.
~ Deborah Blake
Memories are nothing but ghosts in the corners of our minds.
~ Dee Lestari
When she slept, it was the nightmares that came to her. They waited patiently, and they were always eager to play.
~ Derek Landy
The hollows of his face, even in that vibrant, late-summer light, make him look haunted by a memory he hasn't had yet.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I was a ghost. I was a ghost.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jonathan shuddered. There were birds in his head now, as if escaping from the empty feeders above their heads. Ghost birds. Fluttering around inside his skull, and he could not get them out. Yet still he went on, wanting to burst through the nettle and tall trees, find a copse and feel the sunlight on his face. It was getting colder and colder in the haunted mansion.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.
~ Jeffrey J. Kripal
My dear Miss Parker, aside from the old priest, and now you, no one has lived in that building for three years!
~ Jeffrey Konvitz