Help for the Haunted Quotes

“There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Most people, they are afraid to believe in ghosts. Me, i'm afraid not to believe. Because, well, what then? If there really is nothing else- nowhere to go after this, no way to linger on this plane to finish unsettled business it we must, then that means each moment, each breath, each passing second, is as ethereal as the wind. It means all we do here on earth- the going and coming, the loving and hating- it is all for naught. So, no. Ghosts don't scare me. But no ghosts- that terrifies me.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“What I will say is this: each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don’t see that yet, but I do. What’s most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you’ve lost yourself to the darkness. It means you’ve lost your hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place. Do you understand what I am trying to say?”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it is? . . . Love and hate. Greed. Revenge. Pride. Those things...”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“I learned to love the little things about him, because of all the big things I could not love. No one could. It would be wrong to.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Why do the same people who believe in those deities doubt the existence of darker spirits? I ask all of you, how can a person believe in the light but not the dark?”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“It seems like a good way to grow up,” I told her. “It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong— Actually, no. That’s a word my husband would use. I won’t say wrong anymore, I’ll say differently than planned. That’s what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don’t see that yet, but I do. What’s most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you’ve lost yourself to the darkness. It means you’ve lost your hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Darkness cannot put out the light. It can only make God brighter.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us. Some, like yours, burn brighter than others. You don't see that yet, but I do. What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to the darkness. It means you've lost yourself to hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don’t believe. But mostly— mostly, mostly— I do.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“And then I think of my mother beside me, hair fanned all around on the pillow the way it had been that night in our motel room so long ago. If I keep my eyes closed , I feel here there again. I hear her breath, hear her voice telling me, "Each of us is born into this life with a light inside of us...What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to the darkness. It means you've lost your hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place. Do you understand what I am trying to say?"
I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too.
If you believe in those sorts of things.
I do and I don't believe.
But mostly-mostly, mostly-I do.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“You know, prayer and d-d-demons.” My mother was quiet, thinking over his statement. At last, she said, “What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? If you prefer to use those words, it’s all right by me. So I make the same offer. If you like, we can meditate together on this fear you can’t control.” Heekin’s”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“If there’s one place drunks love, Sylvie, it’s a public library. Nice and quiet when you’re nursing a hangover. You can sleep the day away without anyone bothering you except maybe some nag of a librarian.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Your parents are never gone from you. You'll see that someday, hopefully a very long time from now.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“I’m thinking I don’t know what I’d possibly write about in a journal,” I told him, even though I knew what he intended. But I’d spent so much time in other windowless rooms, recounting the details of that night at the church for a white-haired detective and a haggard-looking assistant district attorney, that I felt no desire to do it again.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“All my life until that night, I’d never heard such a horrible and unforgettable sound. When I did, I woke with a start,”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted