Good Spirits Quotes

“You better get used to having me around.” I sniffle. “Haunting me?” “No.” He smiles. “Loving you.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“She's been waiting for you her entire life, and you've been searching for her just as long.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I could spend an eternity studying you and still not know what you might do next. You give so much of yourself, so freely. You're . . . wild with your attentions. Miraculous. I've seen so many lives, Harriet, but I've never seen someone live like you.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“What a gift that is. To still wish and dream and want. To find the good. To wear it on your sleeve.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I’m so damn tired of begging for scraps of affection. Not when I now know that it can be given so freely.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“You’re the first thing in a hundred years to make me feel anything at all”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I still feel like I don’t fit, but I’ve stopped trying to force myself into the spaces that aren’t made for me.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. It’s the only time of year when it feels like magic might be real”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I drowned in the ocean once and I think I could just as easily drown in Harriet. Sink down into her and lose myself for days.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“how many lifetimes more would you wait? For your Harriet?” My frustration leaves me in a rush. I’m suddenly exhausted. Tired to my very bones. “As many as it took,” I answer. “However long.” “Good answer,” Matilda says from her cozy armchair.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I do. I dream of you.' His voice is low. 'Everytime I close my eyes, it's you I see. You I want.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I’m being ghosted by a literal ghost. My life is a joke.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Sometimes it’s best to make yourself as small as possible so you can go unnoticed. Even if going unnoticed breaks your heart.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“This is what I thought his magic would feel like. This spark in my chest that flares brighter every time his eyes crinkle at the corners. This tingling in my hands when his nose drifts across my cheek.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Because I’ve always been able to make my own happiness when the people around me decide I’m not worth the trouble.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“You’re the first thing in a hundred years to make me feel anything at all, Harriet York, and I don’t think that’s an accident.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I want to make sure she’s okay. I don’t think she has anyone to make sure she’s okay.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“We bypassed wanting long ago.” He shakes his head. “Your pajamas and your candy canes. Your smart mouth and your big heart. All of this hair.” He digs his fingers into it with his free hand, dull nails scratching against my scalp. “How could you possibly think—even for a second—that I wouldn’t want you?”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Because not even the people who are supposed to love me can find a way to do it.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I think about you all day long. I fall into a sleep I don’t need and I dream of you. Of your smile”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“You’re a little young to be a ghost.” “Says who?” I shrug. “I died young.” “And your voice. What’s going on with that?” I arch an eyebrow. “My accent?” She nods. “I died Irish.” Her brows pinch together. “You’re not Irish anymore?” “No”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“He really does look like my mind cooked him right up and dropped him beneath my tree.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I know how to hold myself up against disappointment. I’ve been left behind by every person who has ever mattered.
A forgotten thing, just like the treasures I keep stocked on my shelves.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Despite the disappointment and the hurt and the heartbreak, you choose to be these whimsical, colorful things.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Will you remember me?” she whispers. “Yes,” I confess. “I’ll remember everything.” Her face crumples. “Nolan.” “Hush.” I slip my hand around the back of her neck”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“A crack doesn't mean it's broken. A rack means it's done exactly what it's supposed to do for generations. A crack means hundreds of hands have held it...have listened to that little bird sing. A crack means it's one of a kind. Different from anything else. A crack means it's special.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I’ve always loved the broken and forgotten things best.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“I drowned in the ocean once and I think I could just as easily drown in Harriet.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“Of course I had to fall in love with a ghost. I’ve always loved the broken and forgotten things best.”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits

“A tiny woman who favors colorful sweaters and thinks candy is one of the primary food groups. You’re a proper villain”
― B.K. Borison, Good Spirits