“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:

18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”

“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”

“I am haunted by humans.”

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”

“Boo, Forever

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”

“Good stories will keep haunting me for years. They will mature and want to be born. I can't help it.”

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”