Christina

“There’s precious little land in the United States that hasn’t been contested, one way or another, through the years. Americans live on haunted land because we have no other choice.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

“This is another way to make sense of that haunting sensation: to walk into a home and recognize, even if you can’t name the feeling, that someone else not only lived here but adopted patterns of life completely alien to your own, whose daily ritual and marks of wear will never match your own. Haunted houses are the repository of the dreams dreamt inside them—both our dreams and those of previous occupants. This can make even the most simple of houses feel, at times, alive.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

“Everyone cried when the creature first spoke to them. No, not cried. They wept. They wept like the cavemen of Lascaux suddenly transported into the Sistine Chapel just in time for a live performance of Phantom of the Opera as sung by Tolkien’s elves.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“if she didn’t sit down, calm herself, and close her eyes, she was going to smack the god of the dead across the face.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow