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Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to. -- Richard Harris Barham
Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity's Reach, we're in Lion's Arch, we're in Ebonhawke, we're in the Dragon's Land, we're in Ascalon. We're basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations. -- Jeff Grubb
So many horrid Ghosts. -- William Shakespeare
Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do. -- Alexandra Bracken
Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. -- Jacques Derrida
Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do. -- Ellen Hopkins
Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires. -- Thomas C Foster
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. -- James M. Barrie
I inscribe three lines, hush hush hush, into my skin. Ghosts trickle out. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. -- Jim Morrison
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. -- Charles de Lint
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow. -- Paullina Simons
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. -- Ellen Hopkins
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof. -- Ariana Franklin
Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. -- Sue Grafton
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But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created. -- Ellen Hopkins
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about. -- Leslie What
Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. -- J. K. Rowling
Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together. -- Jeff Grubb
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together. -- Jeff Grubb
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! -- Thomas Carlyle
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts. -- Elizabeth Bowen
It Wasn't Hard To Follow The Scent Of Blood To The Living Room Where The Fae Had Been Killed. It Had Been A Violent Death, Perfect For Creating Ghosts. -- Patricia Briggs
Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her. -- Yolanda A. Reid
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. -- Paul Auster
And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark. -- Lewis Carroll
It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things. -- Banana Yoshimoto
I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. -- Moby
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story. -- Guillermo del Toro
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there. -- Bayard Taylor
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 sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light. -- Henrik Ibsen
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. -- James M. Barrie
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
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out. -- Philip Guston
The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. -- William Allingham
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless. -- Joseph Addison
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. -- Stephen King
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. -- Italo Calvino
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. -- Stephen King
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. -- George Matthew Adams
In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not. -- Jessica Alba
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. -- Dick Cavett
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. -- John Malkovich
I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts. -- Saoirse Ronan
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. -- David Bowie
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. -- Joshua Sylvester
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders. -- F. Sionil Jose
Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day. -- Bess Truman
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones. -- Florence Welch
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. -- Isabel Allende
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. -- Alice Oswald
I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best. -- Jason Katims
When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. -- Dario Argento
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary. -- Oren Peli
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Sorry, we've got ghosts. -- Deborah Harkness
I wish ghosts were real! -- Holly Madison
I don't believe in ghosts. -- Rachel Hurd-Wood
Despair and die. The ghosts -- William Shakespeare
I definitely believe in ghosts. -- Jenna Dewan
Thoughts are ghosts of emotions. -- Raheel Farooq
I believe in spirits, not ghosts. -- Kendra Wilkinson
The ghosts you chase you never catch. -- John Malkovich
It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight. -- Patricia Briggs
Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts. -- Celia Thaxter
The really historical performance would talk to ghosts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
While they're still alive, people can become ghosts. -- Haruki Murakami
Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you. -- Sandra Cisneros
"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. -- Rick Riordan
Only times and places, only names and ghosts. -- Aldous Huxley
... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do! -- Lee Ryan
Words themselves are all the ghosts we need. -- Donald Harington
Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. -- Swami Vivekananda
We are the ghosts of the singing furies . -- Conrad Aiken
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations. -- Alan Weisman
More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism, -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. -- Stephen King
Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. -- C. S. Lewis
I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist. -- Harry Houdini
The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered. -- Jill Johnston
I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people. -- Cher
Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors. -- Norman Doidge
It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices. -- Italo Calvino
Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see. -- Lauren Oliver
Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually! -- Aaron Boone
The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts. -- Lisa Ann Sandell
knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question -- Laura Wiess
Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them ... -- Helen McCloy
I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts. -- Mark Roberts
Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts. -- Cassandra Clare
Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The older you get, the more you live with ghosts. -- Nick Tosches
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. -- Alberto Manguel
I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me -- Amit Abraham
All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice -- Brendan Kennelly
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them. -- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. -- Taylor Caldwell
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. -- Stephen King
So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then. -- Stephen King
Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit. -- Gail Godwin
I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories. -- John Robert Colombo
I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York. -- Rich Fulcher
I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. -- Mitch Hedberg
We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us." -- Emily Bronte
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. -- Charlaine Harris
She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams. -- Libba Bray
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. -- Neil Gaiman
Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. -- Lesley Howarth
Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. -- Bernie Mcgill
I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts. -- Graham Joyce
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions. -- Robert E. Howard

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