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“Megan placed the eye loupe over the toile. Hoping to decipher the texture and composition she moved the loupe ever so meticulously. “This is so detailed.�� A blue green eyeball suddenly stared back at her and blinked. Megan gasped.”
― Mary K. Savarese, The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper

“The Atlantean Road by Stewart Stafford

A snake of stones
beneath the waters
Soldiers march
past spectral daughters

Phantom travellers
To work or home
Atlantean lives
replay in foam

The water drowned
out extinct times
Of joy and war
Of love and crime

The divers rapt
by sound immemorial
Echoes entombed
Sweet voices choral

The flame of Erasmus
and barking sounds
Of canine guards
and strangers found

The road roused
from silent sleep
To tell explorers
how ancients weep

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?”
― Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

“There are such thing as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Klaus will not look at Ona or acknowledge anything she says. Ona is a ghost to him or less because of her 'Narfa', her spinsterdom and her burgeoning belly. I have observed that being a ghost suits Ona.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“If they were to kill her, her ghost would still be dancing.”
― Kevin Jared Hosein, Hungry Ghosts

“True love is deeper than any grave.”
― L.C. Marino, Burn the Girls

“Amren said, 'When Rhys came back, after Amarantha, he was a ghost. He pretended he wasn't, but he was. You made him come alive again.'

Words stalled, and I didn't want to think about it, not when what ever good I'd done- whatever good we'd done for each other- might have been wiped away by what I'd said to him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“«Tu vedi altre cose.»
Non era una domanda.
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«Non lo so. Facciamo una prova, se vuoi. E, se vuoi, c'è anche un modo per far sì che tu veda quelli che sono come l'uomo e la donna solo quando ne hai voglia.» «Quando ne ho voglia?»
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«E perché dovrei averne voglia?»
Era una buona domanda. Juan rise.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“Ze had het gevoel dat ze in de gaten werd gehouden, niet door iemand van vlees en bloed, maar door geesten in het donker.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Ghost Wail Square by Stewart Stafford

There's a place that canines shun,
In The Witching Hour stark,
Dogs wandering misty avenues,
Flee from Pandora's Park.

Nicknamed Ghost Wail Square,
Once whispered as Harlot's Row,
Twilight cobblestones flooded with blood,
Extinguished collusion's glow.

Blue bloodlust inflamed there,
In scented carriages and filthy lanes,
Carnivores at the butcher's block,
As they scattered ill-gotten gains.

At Devil's Hour, the horror peaks,
Death rattle knocks on doors,
As screams for mercy fill the air,
No rescue missions for whores.

A killer sheltered 'neath potent wings,
A skittish stranger to the noose,
Then sewn mouths shall speak,
As festering skeletons slip loose.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“এখ�� পর্যন্�� কো�� বিজ্ঞানী ভূতক�� ধর�� বোতল�� ভরতে পারে�� নি, ডিসচার্জ কর�� তা�� স্পেকট্রাম দেখে সেটা কো�� কো�� মৌ�� দিয়ে তৈরি বে�� করতে পারে�� নি- কাজে�� ধর�� নেওয়�� যা�� পৃথিবীতে ভূ�� বল�� কিছু নেই। কিন্তু কে�� অস্বীকা�� করতে পারব�� না যে পৃথিবীতে ভূতে�� গল্প আছ��, শুধু যে আছ�� তা নয় পৃথিবীতে যতদি�� মানু�� থাকব�� ততদি�� ভূতে�� গল্প�� থাকব��!”
― Muhammed Zafar Iqbal , Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, ভূ�� সমগ্��

“I am Just a ghost empty with space.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“As the droplets fell harder across his back and shoulders, he could feel his body disappearing bit by bit into the mist.
I am a ghost.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“...the grief would always linger, a ghost that would haunt every happy moment in her life until it became all she knew.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“What Walks By Night by Stewart Stafford

Jealous looks at earthly prowl,
Or unbound by fleshly form,
Seen under darkness�� cowl:
Agitated ghost or hellspawn?

Violence torments it from sleep,
Or trapped inside by exorcist bait,
Hexed glances corrupted, weep,
As redress or perdition state.

Jinxed trails of ashen flame,
Unheard wails for living aid,
Or gatecrash our human frame,
As night and sunrise trade.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies, but they remain my steadfast companions.
I’m grateful, though I long to fly, too. But as long as The Bad Man lurks, another girl may need me. As long as The Bad Man lurks, I will stay.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House

“Feeling unsettled in an old, drafty house is not a cause to look to the supernatural.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Making a poltergeist can be a simple recipe: allow a girl to have her first menstrual period, tell her she is a naughty girl for thinking dirty thoughts, punish her, bore her, disenfranchise her from her life, and wait. It is not a universal outcome. More than likely, you will summon nothing more than a moody teenager who slams her bedroom door and wishes aloud she had never been born. In exceptional cases, the dishes will fly off the shelves.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“A poltergeist is the byproduct of a repressed girl (and, yes, we are typically dealing with young girls; boys tend to feel more in control and have coping mechanisms beyond psychokinesis).”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“There is no spirit outside the domain of neurons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The angels would still be here come the end of this world, and its destruction would not bother them. Like the ghosts, they no longer belonged to this world. Unlike the dead, they were not tethered here. They did not need the Earth intact because they were citizens of a more fantastic realm.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Lifecycle of Suns

“All I did know was that after that initial shock of thinking that Lily had come back I had felt a cool, small relief, a moment of adjusting to Lily’s ghost so that I could be . . . not unsatisfied with the quality of her being there. I can only explain it in comparison to something mundane—my adjustment to Lily’s ghost was sort of like when you’re insanely thirsty, but for some reason you can’t get the cap on your water bottle to open properly so you tussle at it with your teeth and hands until you can get a trickle of water to come through. A little water at a time, and you’re trying to be less thirsty and more patient so that the water can be enough. The thing with having seen Lily was just like that, a practical inner adjustment to meet a need. At least she is there, I’d thought, even if she is just a ghost and doesn’t speak, at least she is

there”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

“I’ll know,�� she said softly. “Because when you drink you aren’t really present. You are a ghost. Ghosts cannot feel pain. They cannot be touched. And they are not alive. Not really.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Redeem a Rake

“My dad used to call second chances mulligans. He thought of me as his chance to get his own life right the second time around. That was a stupid thing for him to think, and an even stupider thing to say. Nobody is a do-over of anybody else, and if you get to do anything at all on earth it’s live your own life, not be some sort of ghost version of somebody else’s.”
― Jodi Picoult

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls.”
― Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

“The living exerted so much effort to remember those of us who had passed on. In some ways, I wish people knew we were still here. I wish the living understood that the best way to remember us was to live on as blissfully as they possibly could, with the memory of us as a source of pure joy and love.”
― Krie Reyes Lopez, Oha: A Story Told in One Eternal Second

“The Dark Cloud
Is a costly habit that can drive someone to become insane
Is a pathway to becoming crazy, criminal, and in pain
Is a dark secret that knows everything about your neighbor
Is a ghost that suddenly and dangerously sent lots of labor”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud