Ashley Jacobs

“Wait,” she called out, almost reflexively. The father stopped in his tracks and looked back over his shoulder. Eve cleared her throat. “Fifteen minutes?” He nodded. “Tops.”
― Marcus Kliewer, We Used to Live Here

“This is the recurring structure of a classic ghost story, after all: the ghost remains because it cannot believe the perverse normality of a world that has gone on living, that has forgotten whatever personal tragedy happened here.”
― Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

“There’s an honesty to these places, if you’re willing to look, because the dead don’t have a deceitful bone in their bodies.”
― Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

“White blood cells are removed from all donations—a process called leukodepletion—because it is in white cells that many infections travel, including the prions that cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a vile and violent affliction that anyone growing up in the 1980s will visualize as piles of burning cattle and skeletal humans who fall when they walk because their brains are degenerating.”
― Rose George, Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood