ghosts

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was the ghost of a lady who had been murdered in that very bed, or who had murdered somebody else there - it does not really matter which: you can be a ghost by murdering somebody else or by being murdered yourself, whichever you prefer. The murdered ghost is, perhaps, the more popular; but, on the other hand, you can frighten people better if you are the murdered one, because then you can show your wounds and do groans.("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER)

Do you like a good ghost story?_-Jonah

The others can__ see me,_ said the little ghost.__ know,_ I said. __y name__ Gwyneth. What__ yours?___r. White to you,_ said Dr. White.____ Robert,_ said the ghost.__hat__ a very nice name,_ I said.__hank you,_ said Dr. White. ____l return the compliment by saying you have very nice veins.

I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend__ house.

London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was .... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.A city where the dead could stay lost a long time

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

Libraries are full of ghosts, books being the most haunted things of all.

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it__range-blossoms, in an English winter!

You rile this gal and she'll go wildcat on your ass. Patti (Pat) Canella- Dockland murders/Ghosts of your past.

It lingers in this room like the voices that still echo here, some belonging to a man who__ once been alive, and the rest belong to others who__e never drawn breath.

No ghosts need

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

...most words for ghost are pieces of mica that carefully layeredwill make a window out of fire. It's cold and the faces at the windowdo what faces usually do they open onto a genetic historythat looks up suddenly and it's the eyes everyone says you can't say that's not alive

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.