“Though there is no such thing as ghosts, paranormal experiences are often rooted in truth, which usually turns out to be of a psychological or environmental nature.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts.”
Source: Dinner on Monster Island: An Intimate Collection of Essays Exploring Queerness, Cultural Monsters, and Personal Growth
“No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls.”
Source: Dinner on Monster Island: An Intimate Collection of Essays Exploring Queerness, Cultural Monsters, and Personal Growth
“A book is a visitor whose visits may be rare, or frequent, or so continual that it haunts you like your shadow and becomes a part of you.
- quote from al-Jahiz (d. 868-9), The Book of Animals”
“It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate seed--
I've just come face-to-face with a street full of ghosts... but nobody's ever haunted me like she does.”
Source: The Haunting of Velkwood
“Inside, it’s cool and grey. Dreary. A place for ghosts. She can picture them—still standing at the assembly line, ground down by punch cards and double-shifts.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart
“He wonders how many ghosts walk the desert, how many people particles are buzzing around, physical and metaphysical.”
Source: Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse
“Forgetting wasn’t unusual. As time passed, ghosts lost the ability to hold their memories, a dementia that we often see in the living, and a process greatly accelerated in the dead. The older the ghost, the less it really remembered.”
Source: Delicious Death
“That is another classification of a haunt— one that is tied by a place, rather than an emotion. We can find those hauntings at places of disaster or historical significance.”
Source: Delicious Death
“I entered the narrow foyer smelling of beeswax, shadows, and ghosts.”
Source: Spirit Guide