City Of Ghosts Quotes

#1. Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Patrick Modiano

#2. Like electricity running through her body or the thick velvet of magic making everything tingle; she was hot and cold and shivering from both, her sense in total overload.
- City of Ghosts

Stacia Kane

#3. I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#4. Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.

Jacob Grimm

#5. Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#6. How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life
financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

Suze Orman

#7. Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.

Sara Sheridan

#8. Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

Kate Christensen

#9. This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

Marguerite Yourcenar

#10. I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#11. But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered.

Stephen King

#12. Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.

Libba Bray

#14. But what if time worked the other way around?
What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#15. Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city

Angela Carter

#16. Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life.
And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Anna Quindlen

#17. Guillaume Belibaste, the last Cathar recorded to have burned at the stake in 1321, is said to have prophesied that "at the end of seven hundred years the laurel would again turn green,"114 implying that the principles of "the true Christianity" would return to the world's attention.

Marnia Robinson

#18. It was past dark when I reached the city and I'd mostly shoved my ghosts back into their graves. I let the gray mare pick her own pace and browse in the grain fields along the way.

Deborah Wheeler

#19. I bet he fucks like he drives - a little reckless, pushing all the limits, and in it until the very last lap.

K. Bromberg

#20. I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

Eric Drooker

#21. I wouldn't touch New Orleans with a ten-foot pole. That town is haunted as shit, and all the better for it. Nowhere in the world loves its ghosts more than that city.

Kendare Blake

#22. I have been both a ghost and haunted in the city I love.

Rebecca Solnit