“C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?”
―
Darcy Coates,
The Haunting of Blackwood House
“The massive grey tabby turned his sea-green eyes towards her and projected abject misery in the way only cats are capable of.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“This is a house that hasn’t seen a new soul in half a century. The walls are saturated with her; the floorboards are worn down from her feet; the very air continues to carry her presence after her death.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“I know. But I hate weddings.”“Because of Darcy?”“Because a wedding is a ceremony where a symbolic virgin surrounded by women in ugly dresses marries a hungover groom accompanied byfriends he hasn’t seen in years but made them show up anyway. After that, there’s a reception where the guests are held hostage for two hours withnothing to eat except lukewarm chicken winglets or those weird coated almonds, and the DJ tries to brainwash everyone into doing the electricslide and the Macarena, which some drunk idiots always go for. The only good part about a wedding is the free booze.”“Can you say that again?” Sam asked. “Because I might want to write it down and use it as part of my speech.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
“There are three parts to a person: a body, a spirit, and a soul. When the body dies, the soul goes into whatever is waiting for us after death. But the spirit can sometimes get stuck behind. That’s what a ghost is: a spirit anchored to earth by residual energy. The soul, the part that goes to the afterlife, is our core person—the identity we were born with. The spirit is our emotions, our temperament, our intelligence—the parts of us that are created and changed by our time on earth. So, when a ghost is formed, it’s missing both the soul and the body that it needs to be a full human. It’s like an echo of what it once was.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“You may rule the world by day, but the creatures of the night demand their privacy.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Gillespie House
“She’d said that life had sections, like walking through doors. People had to choose when to walk through them, but no one could see what the next room held until they were in it. Some new rooms were painful. Some were happy. Some seemingly had no purpose. But the fullest, happiest lives were lived by those who walked through many different doors, unafraid of what they would find.” ― Darcy Coates, Hunted
“But what does it matter if I forget a story after a month as long as I enjoy it while I’m reading it?” ― Darcy Coates, The Folcroft Ghosts
“Mistakes make us human; don’t torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone’s problem.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Blackwood House
“They weren’t all that different from her—teenagers who had found themselves classified as adults by virtue of too many birthdays and who were trying to fumble and bluff their way through the world without anyone realising how thoroughly underqualified they were.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” ― Darcy Coates, Hunted
“Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll die horribly in the void of space.” ― Darcy Coates, Craven Manor
“I’m going to be single my whole life. I’ll have twelve cats and live in a haunted house and be the happiest spinster you’ve ever met.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“Then she looked at her phone and saw, to her horror, she hadn’t been hung up on after all. Her battery had died.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Blackwood House
“I wish I’d never started, but I cannot stop. Death is the next step. Heaven owes me no mercy, so I will make my own.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there.” ― Darcy Coates, From Below
“A thousand paper cuts given over a lifetime might be insignificant, but when none of them are allowed to heal, they fester into something awful.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Leigh Harker
“Do not mistake hardheartedness for strength. To live in this world and to hold on to your humanity, your compassion, your joy—I believe that is strength. And more valuable than being callous enough that death never haunts you.” ― Darcy Coates, Secrets in the Dark
“It will be fine. Go and season the door, just like regular people do all the time.” ― Darcy Coates, Craven Manor
“The massive grey tabby turned his sea-green eyes towards her and projected abject misery in the way only cats are capable of.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“This is a house that hasn’t seen a new soul in half a century. The walls are saturated with her; the floorboards are worn down from her feet; the very air continues to carry her presence after her death.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“I know. But I hate weddings.”“Because of Darcy?”“Because a wedding is a ceremony where a symbolic virgin surrounded by women in ugly dresses marries a hungover groom accompanied byfriends he hasn’t seen in years but made them show up anyway. After that, there’s a reception where the guests are held hostage for two hours withnothing to eat except lukewarm chicken winglets or those weird coated almonds, and the DJ tries to brainwash everyone into doing the electricslide and the Macarena, which some drunk idiots always go for. The only good part about a wedding is the free booze.”“Can you say that again?” Sam asked. “Because I might want to write it down and use it as part of my speech.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake
“There are three parts to a person: a body, a spirit, and a soul. When the body dies, the soul goes into whatever is waiting for us after death. But the spirit can sometimes get stuck behind. That’s what a ghost is: a spirit anchored to earth by residual energy. The soul, the part that goes to the afterlife, is our core person—the identity we were born with. The spirit is our emotions, our temperament, our intelligence—the parts of us that are created and changed by our time on earth. So, when a ghost is formed, it’s missing both the soul and the body that it needs to be a full human. It’s like an echo of what it once was.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“You may rule the world by day, but the creatures of the night demand their privacy.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Gillespie House
“She’d said that life had sections, like walking through doors. People had to choose when to walk through them, but no one could see what the next room held until they were in it. Some new rooms were painful. Some were happy. Some seemingly had no purpose. But the fullest, happiest lives were lived by those who walked through many different doors, unafraid of what they would find.” ― Darcy Coates, Hunted
“But what does it matter if I forget a story after a month as long as I enjoy it while I’m reading it?” ― Darcy Coates, The Folcroft Ghosts
“Mistakes make us human; don’t torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone’s problem.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Blackwood House
“They weren’t all that different from her—teenagers who had found themselves classified as adults by virtue of too many birthdays and who were trying to fumble and bluff their way through the world without anyone realising how thoroughly underqualified they were.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Ashburn House
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” ― Darcy Coates, Hunted
“Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll die horribly in the void of space.” ― Darcy Coates, Craven Manor
“I’m going to be single my whole life. I’ll have twelve cats and live in a haunted house and be the happiest spinster you’ve ever met.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“Then she looked at her phone and saw, to her horror, she hadn’t been hung up on after all. Her battery had died.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Blackwood House
“I wish I’d never started, but I cannot stop. Death is the next step. Heaven owes me no mercy, so I will make my own.” ― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt
“The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there.” ― Darcy Coates, From Below
“A thousand paper cuts given over a lifetime might be insignificant, but when none of them are allowed to heal, they fester into something awful.” ― Darcy Coates, The Haunting of Leigh Harker
“Do not mistake hardheartedness for strength. To live in this world and to hold on to your humanity, your compassion, your joy—I believe that is strength. And more valuable than being callous enough that death never haunts you.” ― Darcy Coates, Secrets in the Dark
“It will be fine. Go and season the door, just like regular people do all the time.” ― Darcy Coates, Craven Manor
