When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe-- I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do...
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Unknown
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
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Alice Sebold
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.
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James Herbert
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
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Nathan Reese Maher
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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Cormac McCarthy
More Quotes By Yiyun Li
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.
A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.
I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.
There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.
