Took: A Ghost Story Quotes
"Messages that make folks need things not worth needing. Dangerous things. Things they regret getting."
"New for old, strong for weak, healthy for sickly, pretty for ugly."
"They scare their children with stories about the girl, the one before her, and the one before her, back and back to the very first girl."
"They come from places where lights burn all night. They don’t heed the dark and what hides there."
"Milk tastes the same whether the glass is blue or red or purple."
"But then the recession came along, and the big corporation started laying people off."
"The woods were already dark, and the mountainsides were in shadow."
"Monsters didn’t roam the woods anywhere but in fairy tales."
"Our conversation consisted of requests for salt or pepper."
"She listens to me. Nobody else does. She talks to me, too. Nobody else does that either."
"Maybe we should go back to Connecticut. Not Fairfield but someplace cheaper, like Bridgeport."
"I didn’t worry about getting lost—I always carried a compass in my pocket."
"In the thick dark of the woods, I heard the rustling, snuffling sounds of a large animal nosing in the fallen leaves."
"I wish I had a sister like you instead of a brother like Daniel."
"A secret is something you don’t tell anyone, Daniel. That’s what it means."
"The teakettle started whistling while I was trying to explain."
"I was scared," I finally admitted. "I was scared to stop for the doll."
"One of the dogs found it caught on a branch," he said, "about a mile from here."
"I’ll never tease you again or get mad at you," I promised. "Just come home. Please, Erica, please come home."
"Old Auntie’s a haunt come back from her grave."
"She’s the prettiest thing I ever seen. I love her to death."
"She’s talking about Selene. Daniel found her. She’s upstairs sleeping."
"Don’t come looking for me. Stay away from my cabin. You hear me?"
"You ain’t got no idea what I’m talking about, do you?"
"I got me a bunch of names on a list, both the living and the dead. One by one I gets my revenge on them who done wrong to me."
"People were so fragile, so easily broken, so hard to put back together."
"I've always loved the way snow feels on my tongue."
"Nothing was right in our house. Not even me."
"You brave enough? ’Cause if you ain’t, you’ll never see your sister till fifty years from now."
"It’s for both these girls you’re doing it. You break the spell for your sister, you break it for Selene, too. Once the spell’s broke, Auntie will be finished. The dark will take her."
"You got to trust me, boy. Get your sister out of the cabin as fast as you can. She won’t want to come. You’ll have to drag her away."
"No matter what, don’t open this sack until you’re inside the cabin, and don’t be scairt of the dolly."
"I’m your brother. I’ve come to take you home."
"We all got nightmares, don’t we? Then morning comes and sweeps them away like cobwebs."
"We made us our own tale, didn’t we—a tale like the tellers told back and back and back to the first tellers sitting around their fires, keeping the dark away with their words."