I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap...
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Jack Kerouac
I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Ghost Whisperer Junior. Or Ghost Screamer, more like it....
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Kelley Armstrong
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.
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James Herbert
After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Nico had learned to shield himself. Sometimes he could even...
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Rick Riordan
For when all else is done, onÂly words reÂmain. Words enÂdure.
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Kate Mosse
More Quotes By Colin Dickey
A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these...
Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping
The use of ghosts as a means of social control predated the Klan. Slave owners employed so-called patterollers, usually poor whites, who would patrol the countryside at night; such patrols would regularlyuse spook stories, among other tactics, to help keep enslaved people from escaping. "The...
Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.
