Jonathan L. Ferrara > Quotes

“From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.”
― Jonathan L. Ferrara

“All the best fiction, they all stem from somewhere. Some might say they’re just the outcome of a wild imagination, but what is imagination? Does it not come from somewhere? Perhaps from somewhere in our souls….who knows?”
― Jonathan L. Ferrara, The Ghost of Buxton Manor

“I watched Aaron collapse on the daybed, weeping into his palms. “But I don’t want to say goodbye.” “It’s the hardest thing for anyone to do,” she acknowledged. “Either in life or death, it doesn’t matter. Saying goodbye is the most difficult, yet most common unfinished business bestowed upon us ghosts. But, Rupert, once you cross through your door’s threshold, you’ll understand that there is no such thing as a ‘goodbye’. Though a powerful word, it is only just that: a word. I believe it was J.M. Barrie who had said it himself: ‘Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.’ You and Aaron, even though you are parting ways now, it’s not really a goodbye, but merely a, ‘I’ll see you soon’.” I”
― Jonathan L. Ferrara, The Ghost of Buxton Manor

“As I stood there gazing into the fog, I realized that there was one thing I was certain of—just like dear Alice, lost in Wonderland, things were becoming curious and curiouser.”
― Jonathan L. Ferrara, The Ghost of Buxton Manor

“What did we do that was so awful to deserve this? How is loving another person, regardless of sex, profane? How could anyone think it is right to take a life for the sole reason of people loving each other? It isn’t!”
― Jonathan L. Ferrara, The Ghost of Buxton Manor