{"quotes":[{"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":"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":"There’s a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then there’s a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you.","author":"Christina Harlin","tags":["ghost","ghost-hunters","haunting","paranormal-romance","paranormal-thriller","possession"],"id":13070,"author_id":"Christina+Harlin"},{"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":"Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["ghosts","haunting","shamanism","spirit-communication","spirits","supernatural","true-paranormal"],"id":15004,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-disorders","burden","cowardly","emotional-wounds","guilty-conscience","haunted","haunting","hypocrisy","monster-under-the-bed","monsters-of-men","ptsd","secret","self-hate","sinful-nature","why-we-need-jesus","wounded-souls","wounds-to-the-heart"],"id":27929,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.","author":"Andrea Camilleri","tags":["haunting","memory"],"id":33150,"author_id":"Andrea+Camilleri"},{"text":"He wouldn’t be the one to prove to the world that there was an afterlife, but he hoped to be the one to prove it to himself, though he would have a few stern questions for a Creator who made people haunt libraries.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["afterlife","creator","god","haunt","haunting","library"],"id":38802,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Recognizing the connection to All Things, even in creepy moments, keeps me true to my animistic perspective. Finding growth from them is my choice.","author":"S. Kelley Harrell","tags":["animism","ghosts","haunting","spirituality","supernatural","true-paranormal"],"id":53164,"author_id":"S.+Kelley+Harrell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}