Christina Baker Kline Quotes

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.

I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

The dead have a presence.

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

I think there are probably ghosts in the world. I have not seen one but I feel like I felt the presence of one. In Korea there's been a superstition that ghosts love music, so they're always in a studio or a dance-training place.

My father is with me every day. Although he passed away in 2003, he continues to live on inside me and through me - at home and work, on crowded subway cars and busy sidewalks.

Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them.

When you lose someone, their memory lives on.

I've always told Bindi, 'If anything ever happened to me, I will always watch over you from Heaven.' But she always understood because, living at a zoo, animals die; she's seen death. She knows what death is.

We all know he was talented but he was also a very smart, kind, funny individual and his personality and presence will be deeply missed. There will never be another person like him but his legacy will live forever. R.I.P. Chad Butler.