The popular notion that ghosts are likely to be seen in a graveyard is not borne out by psychical research... A haunting ghost usually haunts a place that a person lived in or frequented while alive... Only a gravedigger's ghost would be likely to haunt a graveyard.
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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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 John H. Alexander
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.
The popular notion that ghosts are likely to be seen in a graveyard is not borne out by psychical research... A haunting ghost usually haunts a place that a person lived in or frequented while alive... Only a gravedigger's ghost would be likely to haunt...
