“A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they're just what we want to see.”

— Mike Flanagan, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: Ghost, Memory, daydream, Grief, Guilt

“Steven Crain: Nobody's buying the novel, Shirl. Shirley Crain: You sold me the book. Now you know what I think. You publish this, you know what it costs.”

— Mike Flanagan, Shirley Crain, Elizabeth Reaser, imdb.com

Tagged: novel, book, sold, publish

“He said it was haunted. Those are his words.”

— Mike Flanagan, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: Haunted, Words

“Does he talk to you about what happened that night? Because all I've got are those tabloid quotes. He refuses to tell us anything else.”

— Mike Flanagan, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: happened, Night, tabloid, Quotes, Refusal

“I've seen a lot of ghosts. Just not the way you think.”

— Mike Flanagan, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: Ghosts, Memory

“You're worse than a guy, you're like a frat guy.”

— Mike Flanagan, Shirley Crain, Elizabeth Reaser, imdb.com

Tagged: insults

“No live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

— Shirley Jackson, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: Reality, Harsh Reality, Knowing The Truth Is Too Much, Never Know The Truth, Truth

“There's natural phenomena that we understand and there's natural phenomena that we don't. Primitive humans used to die of fright during an eclipse. They had no idea what it was. The eye of an angry god. An evil spirit. Nothing supernatural about it, though. Once we understood what it was, well, it w…”

— Mike Flanagan, Steven Crain, Michiel Huisman, imdb.com

Tagged: Supernatural, Ghosts, What We Don't Understand