The Ghost Keeper Quotes

“But she laughs, and she makes me laugh, and when she smiles at me I'm a balloon on a string.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“We act is if the world still worked the way our minds do, but it doesn't." His forehead hardens as he speaks. "Perhaps it never did.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“All around us is the great noisy world of people, but in my heart there is stillness and a light, and I am a lamp cupped in my sister's hand, a warm bright hidden light.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“New life comes into the world, the quiet seems to tell me, but you will be forever counting up and up, because the subtraction at the other end of life will never be un-birth.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“There are a lot of things I don’t tell my friends, many things beautiful or frightening—these I carry inside, like coins in my pocket that only my own fingertips know.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“There are none so powerless as the dead, and I believe one must in some way show mercy to memories as much as to bones.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“More and more it seems to me that a world to come, unless it is more than a story told to children, unless it is somehow a good big enough to make up for the evil we do in this life, is only an insult to our suffering here and now. There are answers I want, but I can ask and ask forever and the questions just dig deeper into an earth that has no bedrock.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“I hate the sound of eating when I’m not hungry, when no one is shouting or shushing and it feels as if the food is just there to fill people’s mouths and bury the things waiting to be said..”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper

“I feel as if a conversation has begun; but although I sense that I have meet someone's eyes and smiled, the first word is still hanging over us and I can't seem to remember who it is I'm talking to.”
― Natalie Morrill, The Ghost Keeper