The Ghost in Love (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• “A tortoise-colored Manx cat appeared on the other side of the street. It gave Pilot one of those sly, supercilious looks of cool superiority and quick dismissal that the dog detested. Who did cats think they were? But chasing them brought him no pleasure. Cats were barely clever enough to dupe gullible fools into thinking they were mysterious. Fat chance. Any animal that played contentedly with a dangling piece of string for half an hour was neither mysterious nor worth the effort of chasing and killing.”

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• we give away pieces of ourselves to make the danger go away. It’s a trade: you want life to stop scaring you, so you give it a part of yourself. You give away your pride, your dignity, or your courage

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• it is all of our selves that have lived up until this moment that decide what we do: not only the me who is living right now. And there is no saying which one of those selves will prevail. Out of that revelation grew the second: all of our selves—past and present—determine what we do every minute of our lives.

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• Self-hatred is always the last thing to die. How many people do you know who like themselves—ever?”

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• We’re all made up of many different selves that fight and compete with one another constantly.

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• “When all you feel is fear, you don’t need dignity. So you don’t mind giving that away—at the moment.

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• How often does that kind of accord happen in life, especially with a new partner? How often are our weaknesses solved by the strengths of others, and vice versa?

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• “That’s what all people do when we’re frightened: we give away parts of ourselves. We do it on purpose. No one steals them or forces us. We give away our best parts: the ones that make us whole and right.

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• “Your will has taken over. It decided it’s time to take action. And now it has.”

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• Joy, real joy, comes so rarely in life that we mourn the death of it a long time.

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• “You can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”

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1. Jonathan Carroll (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary