Ghost Walk Quotes

“She hung tightly onto the book for no other reason than it signified a connection to someone else in the world.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Would you like my advice?"
"Always."
"Go back with her. Go back and face your problems there, and then defeat them. You have someone at your side now you has accepted you for all of your strengths and all your faults, so just as you share in joy, you share in trials. Go back with her and be brave. There are evils in the world, but none too great for the bravery of Adelaide Sol and the heart of Maaya Sahni combined. Of that I am absolutely certain.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Maaya almost couldn’t breathe. She had occasionally passed funerals when she dared to step foot outside town, and she had always marveled at the beautiful speeches people had come up with to honor their dead. But she had never felt so overcome, so overwhelmed by a moment as she did now, all from a unanimous honor given without saying a word. Every light was its own star, each sent skyward from someone with the name of a loved one on their lips or in their hearts. The sky glowed so bright that Maaya imagined this was not just a symbol for one world alone to celebrate; it was a message from one world to the next, where millions of flickering lights from every corner of this side of the earth all joined together in one powerful, silent voice to say: We have not forgotten you.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“For all the experiences she had, for all the knowledge she had accumulated over the years, she was back to feeling as though she knew nothing at all. She was a stranger in a strange world, one so infinite and broad in scope that it likely didn't even realize, or care, that she existed.”
― kay solo, Ghost Walk

“Maaya let out a breath and shook her head.
"I couldn’t have found a girl with a pet cat or something."
Adelaide leaned over and planted a kiss on her cheek.
"Please. After all you know about me, my giant metal pet spider clock is surely one of the more normal things about me.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Ghosts weren’t inherently mean, but many were standoffish. Many ghosts, after a certain length of time, became used to routine. They stayed in the same places in the same company, and generally had no reason or desire to leave. Beyond that, they were peaceful until disturbed. This was what people didn’t understand about ghosts. Most of them didn’t harbor any ill will towards the living or have some unexplainable animosity toward inanimate objects – they were just stubborn and didn’t like change.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“It was the wanderers Maaya pitied. They were the ones who had been dead for so long that they had lost almost all their humanity. Death had ever so slowly driven them mad, trapping them in the in-between they could exist in but not interact with, the place where they could see and hear all that couldn’t see or hear them. Many spoke in languages long dead, if they remembered how to speak at all. In a world full of people, they were utterly alone, and over the centuries and millennia, they became numb to it all.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“I’m so glad," Maaya exclaimed. “It looks like there should be plenty of room for Adelaide and I to hide behind you whenever a pulse comes up."
"Indeed. Just stay behind me, fair maidens, and I will protect you," Saber said valiantly.
"That didn’t take long to go to your head,” Maaya snorted.
"My head is literally the source of your salvation, what did you expect?”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“I think eventually they would understand," Maaya continued encouragingly. "I mean, they seem to have gotten better with Adelaide, right?"
"Yeah, well, she's the savior of the world," Marit grumbled.
"I wasn't when I left," Adelaide argued gently. "When I left I was a stubborn, headstrong brat. But I was a confident one. I knew what I wanted and I took it. The only exception was Maaya, where I asked politely.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“It was unlike anything Maaya had ever expected, and yet still so much like what she always dismissed as stories. There was no way real life could ever match the pages in her books; that was what she used to think. It was all artistry, all made up by wordsmiths who took a dull concept and turned into poetry, the hopeless ones lost in the throes of young love who though every first kiss was a sign of forever. There was no way a simple touching of lips could mean that much.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“But we must all do what we can. Had you left the task of saving the world in another’s hands – perhaps the hands of someone whose duty it was to do such a thing – the world might remain unsaved. If you see an opportunity to do good, you shouldn’t worry about whether or not you were the one assigned to do it. If you are capable, then the task is yours.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“But evil and those who fight it are not the same simply because they employ many of the same tools.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk