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    Salman Rushdie
    “Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: ghosts, regrets
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: ghosts, spells
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    “Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.”
    ― Rebecca Maizel, Infinite Days
    tags: ghosts, imagery
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    Patricia Briggs
    “It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight.”
    ― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones
    tags: ghosts
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    William Shakespeare
    “So many horrid Ghosts.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Henry V
    tags: ghosts
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    Stephen King
    “So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.”
    ― Stephen King, Bag of Bones
    tags: bag-of-bones, ghosts, scary, stephen-king
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    John Steinbeck
    “Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”
    ― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat
    tags: ghosts, haunting
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    Richard Matheson
    “Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts rebel at the admission of such maddening possibility. For, once the initial step is made into the supernatural, there is no turning back, no knowing where the strange road leads except that it is quite unknown and quite terrible. ("Slaughter House")”
    ― Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 2
    tags: ghosts, horror, supernatural
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  • #10
    “I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed in the living.”
    ― Leland Hall, Cold Harbour / Sinister House
    tags: ghosts, supernatural
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    Michael Ende
    “Maybe all the people who say ghosts don't exist are just afraid to admit that they do.”
    ― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
    tags: ghosts
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  • #12
    “There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'
    More than men come back,” I said.”
    ― Leland Hall, Cold Harbour / Sinister House
    tags: ghosts, horror, supernatural
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “No ghosts need apply.

    - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: ghosts, holmesian, realism, scepticism, sherlock-holmes, sherlockian
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    Nathan Reese Maher
    “Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”
    ― Nathan Reese Maher
    tags: abandoned, amnesia, androids, apocalypse, carrack, cityisle, cityspire, count, damnation, death, desolate, dreams, emily-dickinson, empty, fedora, ghosts, gothic, greek-mythology, haunting, haunts, horace-walpole, jazz, life, magic, magick, mannequins, masquerade, music, phillip-k-dick, piano, poems, puddles, rain, reflections, romance, sacrifice, science-fiction, sex, shakespeare, ships, songs, specters, spectre, storms, tempest, waking, water
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    Amy Tan
    “Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
    ― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
    tags: dream, hope
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    Amy Tan
    “How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?”
    ― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife
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    Amy Tan
    “Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ”
    ― Amy Tan
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    Amy Tan
    “If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”
    ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
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    Amy Tan
    “You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.”
    ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
    tags: dark, desperation, light
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    Amy Tan
    “What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.”
    ― Amy Tan
    tags: ghosts
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    Stephen King
    “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: life
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    Stephen King
    “Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
    ― Stephen King
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  • #23
    Stephen King
    “Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.”
    ― Stephen King
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  • #24
    Stephen King
    “Sometimes dead is better”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
    tags: creed, dead, death, undead
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  • #25
    Stephen King
    “Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: loneliness
    136 likes

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  • #26
    Stephen King
    “The devil's voice is sweet to hear.”
    ― Stephen King
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  • #27
    Stephen King
    “If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.”
    ― Stephen King, Under the Dome
    tags: coping
    177 likes

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    Stephen King
    “God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”
    ― Stephen King, Duma Key
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  • #29
    Stephen King
    “And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
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  • #30
    Stephen King
    “Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”
    ― Stephen King, It
    tags: clown
    216 likes

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  • #31
    Stephen King
    “The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.”
    ― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
    226 likes



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