Ghost (The Halloween Boys, #1)

by Kat Blackthorne

To the demons throwing birds at my window while I wrote this. You can stop. I think I made you proud with this one. & To the girls like me who wear black, sleep with stuffed animals, and don’t quite fit in. I wrote this for you. Choose your monster. And I really hope you pick the one inside yourself.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person. Stevie Nicks

If I kept moving, I wouldn’t break. If I kept moving, I wouldn’t cry. If I kept moving, he wouldn’t find me.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. Steven King

When I was a child, I was afraid of ghosts. When I grew up, I realized people are more scary. Unknown

I put a spell on you now you’re mine Hocus Pocus

A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality. The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Steven King

I enjoy tremendously every single moment of my life because death, all the time, is very close watching me and death might catch me. And every five minutes death don’t catch me, I enjoy tremendously. Salvador Dali

Apparently, all it took for me to hopelessly fantasize about someone was the smallest amount of human decency.

People said cockroaches would survive the apocalypse.

“A lot of what stories say are monsters are really just people.

Tis the night—the night of the grave's delight, and the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without the wild winds shout, but no, it is they—it is they. Cleveland Coxe

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin

War makes strange bedfellows. Helen Thomas

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see. Edgar Allan Poe

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family

Change was its own form of amnesia.

It crept in like a stealthy killer and crowned its victims with false security.

For better or worse, things evolved, and we all accepted it...

sometimes a touch or sound could release an arrow of remembrance.

Dancing was passion in plain sight.

SPOOKY GIRLS LOVE LIBRARIES

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. Catherine Fisher

I’d been running so long that any sort of kindness or show of friendship unnerved me.

Something about these boys made me want to live.

The real world is where the monsters are. Rick Riordan

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Fly

Terror made me cruel . . . Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? American Psycho

IF GHOST HASN’T KILLED YOU, YOU’RE HIS FRIEND.

A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope. Neil Gaiman

One need not be a chamber to be haunted. One need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place. Emily Dickinson

Everything is ecstasy, inside... Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-endings drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside...and you will remember. Jack Kerouac

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps stalking her was even more than I deserved. It was selfish and an obsession, but I had no urge to change it. It was what it was. I was what I was. A demon. A ghost. And now she was cursed with me forever.

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. Alice in Wonderland

Hell is empty and the devils are here. William Shakespeare

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder. Maggie Stiefvater

I’d learned my lesson. If a man wanted to eat me out every night, I wasn’t about to stop him.

I’d thought this whole time that being a clever fox was my mask. When in reality, the only mask I wore was playing dumb, hiding my smarts, my observations, not willing to act or question.

Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're gonna like it. Alice Cooper

“There’s no Ames here. This is your Archdemon, Little Ghost. And that’s Hell’s cock inside you.”

“No gods, I devoured them all. Only me, fucking my virgin on my grave. Watching you take my demon fucking monster cock.”

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts. David Bowie

Life is made of so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens

I’d just lost my virginity to a demon. My poor Catholic mother would be horrified.

You have witchcraft in your lips. William Shakespeare

October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows. Joy Fielding