“They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.”
― Johannes Cabal the Detective
― Johannes Cabal the Detective
“Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.”
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
― Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.”
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“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.”
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“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
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