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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the sha...
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BRANDON CLAUSSEN![]()
He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
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. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his ...
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees...
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My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, ...
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Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
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His face was glistening with cold. He was beautiful, the snow in his eyelashes like diamonds, the co...
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It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer...
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DAVE BENYO![]()
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly...
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Guy suddenly wanted to scald his face, gain fifty pounds, shear his hair. He was sick of his beauty,...
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Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
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DIANNA HARDY![]()
Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an im...
ALBERT PIKE![]()
His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m...
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
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I'd rather he retire than play without his normal enthusiasm and that was sort of the decision that ...
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He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he ...
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's ...
SAMMY HAGAR![]()
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
FRANZ KAFKA Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...
GAIL CARRIGER When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour we...
BIBLE His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleedi...
MOONSHINE NOIRE There he was with this gash under his nose, his face all bloody and glass all over him, checking on ...
GERRY STEMPLEWICZ He got holes in his chest. He was shot all up. He was laying on the ground. He was shot up bad.
KERRY HUMPHREY![]()
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The first shot I took in the game, he blocked. After that it was in my head that his arms were way l...
DEVIN TARRANT I fear the worst and hope for the best. His glasses were at the house boat. His cellphone was there....
CHARLES COX He reminded me of one of those adventure seekers on TV. He hadn’t shaved in a few days at least, a...
JESSICA FORTUNATO Because of the quick response and training of the firefighters on the scene, we were able to get the...
DAVID PEGG Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the h...
JOHN BOYNE![]()
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how co...
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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it...
DR. SEUSS I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m...
LAMON BREWSTER![]()
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had tr...
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The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-de...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
Wit...
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Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help...
RICK RIORDAN![]()
He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried f...
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He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed tha...
LEO TOLSTOY He spotted his fastball really well. The other part was that we were anxious, and we rolled over som...
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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance...
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Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free...
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I knew Noah worshipped Charlie Parker and that his toothbrush was green. That he wouldn't bother to ...
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Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thou...
GINGER ROGERS What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa...
GINA JONES We were all so proud of what he was doing, and he was proud, too. If he was going to be away from hi...
KARLA HOLWERDA![]()
None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.
He wa...
BERYL MARKHAM We played it perfectly. We were draped all over him. But he still hits the shot.
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CHARLES SULLIVAN![]()
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to und...
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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
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PETER L. BERGEN![]()
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY![]()
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for hi...
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He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long e...
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Reasons"
I wish I knew why he left. What his reason were. Why he changed his mind.
<...
LANG LEAV They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt al...
BIBLE![]()
Soon it would be his turn. Kaine wondered how he would meet Death. His ship was a mess, in every sen...
CHRISTINA ENGELA![]()
Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow,...
MICHELLE SAGARA WEST He wanted proof, daily, that he mattered most to me. All sense of reason disappeared and his tantrum...
CYNTHIA LENNON![]()
He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
CHRISTOPHER PLOURD
There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them ... JAMES JOYCE
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. WILLIAM MORRIS
All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the sha... YUKAKO KABEI We were able to save a little ground around the turn. The way he switched leads turning for home, he...
AARON GRYDER He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liqu...
HENRY V. O'NEIL I thought it was his arm, I didn't know his face was in the way. When I walked over there, he wasn't...
BRANDON CLAUSSEN
He thought others were small; that was his greatness. DEJAN STOJANOVIC If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely...
JOHN GRANT
. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his ... WASHINGTON IRVING
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees... ANONYMOUS He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out t...
ANTHONY DOERR He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out t...
ANTHONY DOERR The fact that he was involved in a collision and his first thought was to get out and see if the oth...
GEORGE HEIDEKAT
My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, ... JODI PICOULT Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and w...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY
Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three pl...
JANIE BESS
His face was glistening with cold. He was beautiful, the snow in his eyelashes like diamonds, the co... SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...
JOHN HODGMAN The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way d...
KEENAN MCCARDELL I was pointing to the ground and I knocked his mask out. That was unintentional and he knows it.
SAM PERLOZZO He wanted to go out and show the NBA people and everybody that [the Nets] couldn't stop him without ...
ANTHONY JOHNSON If he slept, he dreamt of the woman with the icy white irises. She exploded planes, swallowed oceans...
SUKANYA VENKATRAGHAVAN His face was all bloody. He had blood coming from his nose and mouth, and he was flopping (on the gr...
JULIE WILSON
It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I went to his little dresser, all his things were folded so neatly. His socks were all rolled u...
ELVA FARMER He was tall—6’ 3” or so—with haunting green eyes that seemed to smolder despite his lazy smi...
KELLY ORAM His skin was pale white, he lost his hair, could barely talk, was coughing, and always had to go in ...
DAVE BENYO
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly... ANNE RICE
Guy suddenly wanted to scald his face, gain fifty pounds, shear his hair. He was sick of his beauty,... EDMUND WHITE
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE
Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, with... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he fe...
DIANNA HARDY
Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an im... ALBERT PIKE
His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Eating a huge home cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after e...
DAVID RANGEL
As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone woul... C.S. LEWIS
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He... ELIE WIESEL
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the... HERODOTUS Sanchez had his game on. All of his pitchers were working pretty good. His fastball at the end was h...
LUIS DORANTE
Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a... TERRY PRATCHETT
Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled s... RICK RIORDAN And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood fa...
BIBLE
I'd rather he retire than play without his normal enthusiasm and that was sort of the decision that ... PHILIP KNIGHT I think the ghosts of the past, the ghosts of colonial rule, the ghosts of the failure of his govern...
BRIAN NKAROGO
He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he ... NANCY FARMER If that was all he'd done, that would've been bad enough. But he wasn't just going to turn his coat ...
DAVE PALMER He was a witness the government thought it needed. Could it have gotten a conviction without him? Ma...
IRVEN BOX First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me thr...
RANDY HOUSER Smith stated that he was a 'pig,' that all the drugs were for himself and that he was aware of the p...
FRANK LOMBARDO He wasn't getting pitches that I think he thought were strikes, and sometimes he'll let that get to ...
BOOMER WALKER
All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's ... SAMMY HAGAR
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap... FRANZ KAFKA Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...
GAIL CARRIGER When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour we...
BIBLE His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleedi...
MOONSHINE NOIRE There he was with this gash under his nose, his face all bloody and glass all over him, checking on ...
GERRY STEMPLEWICZ He got holes in his chest. He was shot all up. He was laying on the ground. He was shot up bad.
KERRY HUMPHREY
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The first shot I took in the game, he blocked. After that it was in my head that his arms were way l...
DEVIN TARRANT I fear the worst and hope for the best. His glasses were at the house boat. His cellphone was there....
CHARLES COX He reminded me of one of those adventure seekers on TV. He hadn’t shaved in a few days at least, a...
JESSICA FORTUNATO Because of the quick response and training of the firefighters on the scene, we were able to get the...
DAVID PEGG Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the h...
JOHN BOYNE
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how co...
DR. SEUSS
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it... DR. SEUSS I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m...
LAMON BREWSTER
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had tr... CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as w...
TOM CHAPIN
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-de... NEIL GAIMAN
O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
Wit... JOHN LOCKE
Nico knew something about ghosts. Letting them get inside your head was dangerous. He wanted to help... RICK RIORDAN
He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried f... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed tha... LEO TOLSTOY He spotted his fastball really well. The other part was that we were anxious, and we rolled over som...
LANDON POWELL
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance...
LORETTA CHASE
Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free... BRIAN SELZNICK
I knew Noah worshipped Charlie Parker and that his toothbrush was green. That he wouldn't bother to ... MICHELLE HODKIN Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like ...
NATASHA PULLEY
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thou... GINGER ROGERS What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa...
GINA JONES We were all so proud of what he was doing, and he was proud, too. If he was going to be away from hi...
KARLA HOLWERDA
None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He wa...
BERYL MARKHAM We played it perfectly. We were draped all over him. But he still hits the shot.
VERN REED If you build a replica, it is still a replica. The magic of a historic structure is that it was stan...
CHARLES SULLIVAN
The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to und... JOHN CONNOLLY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key ...
PETER L. BERGEN
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. THOMAS GRAY
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for hi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN
He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long e... J.K. ROWLING
Reasons"I wish I knew why he left. What his reason were. Why he changed his mind.
<...
LANG LEAV They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt al...
BIBLE
Soon it would be his turn. Kaine wondered how he would meet Death. His ship was a mess, in every sen... CHRISTINA ENGELA
Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow,... MICHELLE SAGARA WEST He wanted proof, daily, that he mattered most to me. All sense of reason disappeared and his tantrum...
CYNTHIA LENNON
He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill o... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
