Apparition

Also known as The Nesting, Remorse

Also known as The Nesting, Remorse

Notable quotes

“Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
— Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) "Foreword"
“Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 681
“Ghosts are not the souls of the dead, but the souls of people written out of history when history changes.”
— Alastair Reynolds The Fixation (2009), reprinted in Deep Navigation, (p. 66)
“I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all.”
— Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle (2004), , page 233
“The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. (Quoted, "He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom.")”
— Benjamin Disraeli, Endymian, Chapter III

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