Orpheus’ mistake wasn’t that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot’s wife. Ave… - Caitlín R. Kiernan

The sun is a white devil, the broiling eye of a god I don’t believe in, gazing down at all the world.

That’s another thing about ghosts, a very important thing — you have to be careful, because hauntings are contagious. Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother’s suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter. Or a painting hanging on a wall.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.