Ghostly Matters Quotes & Sayings

When your heart breaks, you can actually feel it, an agonizing stab of pain in a muscle that you know for a fact is just a glorified pump. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, the ordered universe changes, the solid ground beneath your feet becomes a slippery rock. The material world that seemed so safe and solid a moment ago becomes a shifting, ghostly place of shadows and mist. Matters that seemed settled and certain a long ago come suddenly unhinged, and you begin to doubt everything you ever knew to be true. — Helen Maryles Shankman

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down. — Dan Brown

Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality and to the onlooker were but an undistinguishable part of the water. — W. Somerset Maugham

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun. — James Maslow

Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old. — Geoffrey Chaucer

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. — Alberto Manguel

I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! — Claude Monet

A man does not recover from such jolts
he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about. — F Scott Fitzgerald