“Maybe this immortal thing can also be a curse at times. And it makes me somewhat glad I don’t have it…”
Source: The Companions
“There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort.”
Source: My Darling Dreadful Thing
“It’s not your fault. And anyway, it’s not the worst thing that happened to me.”
Source: Flawless
“I can hear the darkness. It is like a breeze on a frigid winter's night that rattles the leafless branches. It is like the cold that travels through your open mouth and down your throat, a frozen kiss stealing your breath. It is like a blizzard that swallows you in its swiftness, blinding behind and before, and side to side. Darkness is winter. It is the end. It is death.”
Source: Night Falls on Predicament Avenue
“You think your life is unfurling in a certain way, and you let yourself grow happy about it, a smile rising at the slightest thing. A boy in short pants eating a pastelito makes you grin like a lunatic at the vision of your own hoped‐for children, their dark shiny heads rising, year by year, from the Cuban earth, your wife towering behind them, kind and wise. Then you find yourself in a midnight cemetery guarding your mustache from the covetous ghost of an American woman you once loved. Who wouldn’t laugh?”
Source: The Only Sound Is the Wind: Stories
“All her memories have a fragile nature to them. She needed it to be that way to fool herself and everyone else in the palace.”
Source: Vilest Things
“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”