Ghosthood

And James A. Garfield, the Pride of the West, twentieth President of the United States, was shot and killed alright – the sort of abrupt ending that gives rise to ghosthood. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She usually wore a light gauzy dress that lent her an ethereal quality strongly reminiscent of her ghosthood, yet failed to conceal excitingly gentle contours beneath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people's lives – as chambermaids and bus-boys and gardeners. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (2005)

She thinks it helps people move past ghosthood to whatever’s beyond. ❋ Jeri Smith-Ready (2010)

But as for Scientology itself, well, I’m not down with Xenu using DC-8s to transport billions of people to volcanoes for the purpose of nuking them into malevolent ghosthood, but then I’m not down with Yahweh blinking the universe into existence in six days and then kicking Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because they decided to make a fruit plate, either. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people’s lives—as chambermaids and busboys and gardeners. ❋ JODI PICOULT (2005)

"Each individual of us must endure his own individual ghosthood." [ ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)