Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead.
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 Katherine Boo
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s years when you were fighting daily to keep him from...
One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength–that he could chop a brick in half like Bruce Lee. “So let’s get a brick, ” replied a girl with whom he had once, injudiciously, shared this...
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
