#tgbedit

"it's not a gift, my dear young lady. no, no it isn't. those feng shui masters, those ghost hunters and face readers. they like to tell people that they can do what they do because they're so talented and blessed by heaven." "and aren't they?" she leaned close to me. her breathe was pungent with a yeasty odour. "tell me, do you think it is a blessing to see the dead?"

——  The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo for @bloodplums

A peculiar comfort seeped into my skin as I considered his words. The only living creatures in this world.  —— The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo, for @monstress.

“He’d be the world’s luckiest man to stand there at the end of it all, to be the one left, trying to remember. The unluckiest too.”

The Ghost Bride (2020)

That’s my best friend, Lee — we were born on the same day at the same time. We were raised like twins and we’ve been pretty much inseparable ever since.

“That was Julian Ames. He was a beautiful person, an actor. He wasn’t the smartest guy, but he was loyal and he felt things more than other people.”

“Teddy was earning his PhD in philosophy at Loyola, and he tended to come up with elaborate philosophical covers for terribly average feelings."