“it is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. we all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. and yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. it is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”

• ― horꜱeradiꜱh: bitter truthꜱ you can't avoid // lemony ꜱnicket ―

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“monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. they live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

• ― the ꜱhining // ꜱtephen king ―

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“death must be so beautiful. to lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. to have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. to forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

• ― the canterville ghoꜱt // oꜱcar wilde ―

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“in one aspect, yes, i believe in ghosts, but we create them. we haunt ourselves.”

• ― wintergirlꜱ // laurie halꜱe anderꜱon ―

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“maybe all the people who say ghosts don’t exist are just afraid to admit that they do.”

• ― the neverending ꜱtory // michael ende ―

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“because i could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"

• ― emily dickinꜱon ―

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"it is nothing to die. it is frightful not to live."

• ― leꜱ miꜱerableꜱ // victor hugo ―

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“ghosts don't haunt us. that's not how it works. they're present among us because we won't let go of them.”

• ― m iꜱ for malice // ꜱue grafton ―

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“ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.”

• ― never fade // alexandra bracken ―

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“there are such things 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.”

• ― the ꜱecret hiꜱtory // donna tartt ―

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“we are all someone's monster.”

• ― ꜱix of crowꜱ // leigh bardugo ―

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“what would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? it would be like sleep without dreams.”

• ― werner herzog ―