{"quotes":[{"text":"When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. What could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.Regret. Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["deathbed","haunted","regret"],"id":871,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"},{"text":"Yaicha is named after a songby some group from the last century called thePousette-Dart Band.Something about a girl, a candle in the falling rain shining amidst the pain.I kind of surprise myselfwhen I can picture Yaicha as that candle.My father named Yaicha after the 'haunting melody.'I wonder if he ever listenedto the lyrics.","author":"Thalia Chaltas","tags":["haunted","pain"],"id":1931,"author_id":"Thalia+Chaltas"},{"text":"When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.","author":"Yiyun Li","tags":["haunted","haunting","home","homeless"],"id":2668,"author_id":"Yiyun+Li"},{"text":"I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.","author":"Becca Fitzpatrick","tags":["haunted","heartache","life","loss","love","missing"],"id":3435,"author_id":"Becca+Fitzpatrick"},{"text":"To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.","author":"James Herbert","tags":["ghosts","haunted","haunting","truth"],"id":9640,"author_id":"James+Herbert"},{"text":"It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses.","author":"Grace Willows","tags":["adventure","advice","cemetery","creepy","danger","ghosts","haunted","love","midnight","mystery","paranormal","passion","romance","scary"],"id":11233,"author_id":"Grace+Willows"},{"text":"But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite another, and though once I thought I had left that ravine forever on an April afternoon long ago, now I am not so sure. Now the searchers have departed, and life has grown quiet around me, I have come to realize that while for years I might have imagined myself to be somewhere else, in reality I have been there all the time: up at the top by the muddy wheel-ruts in the new grass, where the sky is dark over the shivering apple blossoms and the first chill of the snow that will fall that night is already in the air.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["beginning","donna-tartt","haunted","memory","prologue","the-secret-history","trapped"],"id":13098,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"If your spirit is persistently harmless or if it has shown itself to you, in a non-threatening way, then you most definitely have a ghost. The ghost can be frightening, by its very nature. But the ghost will never intentionally frighten you. They will be there for three reasons: 1. They used to live there and are attached to the location 2. They are trying to communicate something to the living or 3. They are protective of somebody who lives in the house and so they are “standing guard” so to speak, over the loved one.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["boggart","brownies","demon","domovoi","ghost","ghosts","gnome","guide","guides","haunted","haunting","home","house-spirit","occult","possession","spirits","spiritual","spiritualism"],"id":14502,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"In the dark behind the glare of the television, like a mannequin behind it, I could see a silhouette and it wasn’t moving. It was maybe six foot high with its shoulders hunched and I blinked to make sure it was real. The TV fuzzed grey and white and black and I had a lump in my throat that I couldn’t swallow away. “Rory” I whispered. Clawing out gently beneath the duvet cover, reaching for his hand. But I couldn’t find it. And he didn’t answer.","author":"Kate Chisman","tags":["frightened","frightening","ghost","ghosts","girl","haunted","haunted-house","horror","night","nightmare","nightmares","scary","scream","stalker","stalking","terror"],"id":19037,"author_id":"Kate+Chisman"},{"text":"One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.Far safer, of a midnight meetingExternal ghost,Than an interior confrontingThat whiter host.Far safer through an Abbey gallop,The stones achase,Than, moonless, one's own self encounterIn lonesome place.Ourself, behind ourself concealed,Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment,Be horror's least.The prudent carries a revolver,He bolts the door,O'erlooking a superior spectreMore near.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["ghosts","haunted","loneliness","unconscious"],"id":22242,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":94,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}