The Last of the Spirits Quotes

“Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished.”
― Chris Priestley, The Last of the Spirits

“Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse?”
― Chris Priestley, The Last of the Spirits

“For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more.”
― Chris Priestley, The Last of the Spirits

“Marley’s ghost nodded and stooped over, lifting up a length of the chains and letting Sam scrabble free. Then he threw the chains over one shoulder like a cloak. ‘What’s the story with the chains anyway?’ said Sam, feeling a little emboldened now he was free. ‘Are you on a leash?’ Again the unearthly voice surged up from the black cave of the spectre’s mouth. ‘No,’ said Marley’s ghost. ‘The chains are not to bind me. They are to remind me.’ The word ‘remind’ echoed around the graveyard, bouncing from tombstone to tombstone.”
― Chris Priestley, The Last of the Spirits

“They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care.”
― Chris Priestley, The Last of the Spirits