#ghosts

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#haunting #perception #perception

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#haunt #believe

Terror made me cruel . . . ↗

— Emily Brontë

#haunting #supernatural #terrorism

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#ghosts #japanese-horror-movies #death

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#asking #believe #ghosts #i #i believe

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. ↗

— John Malkovich

#chase #confidence #describe #ghosts #i

Rosehill was shady and beautiful, the most serene place I could imagine. It had been closed to the public for years, and sometimes as I wandered alone - and often lonely - through the lush fern beds and long curtains of silvery moss, I pretended the crumbling angels were wood nymphs and fairies and I their ruler, queen of my own graveyard kingdom. ↗

— Amanda Stevens

#ghosts #graveyards #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-suspense #the-restorer

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#ladies #like #never #speak #spoke

The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease. ↗

— Leanna Renee Hieber

#ghosts #goddess #kindness #strangely-beautiful-series #beauty