37 Quotes by John Searles

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?

Just because people are related doesn’t always make the difference it should.

It seems like a good way to grow up,” I told her. “It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong – Actually, no. That’s a word my husband would use. I won’t say wrong anymore, I’ll say differently than planned. That’s what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.

That’s what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.

Most people, they are afraid to believe in ghosts. Me, i’m afraid not to believe. Because, well, what then? If there really is nothing else- nowhere to go after this, no way to linger on this plane to finish unsettled business it we must, then that means each moment, each breath, each passing second, is as ethereal as the wind. It means all we do here on earth- the going and coming, the loving and hating- it is all for naught. So, no. Ghosts don’t scare me. But no ghosts- that terrifies me.

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'

I always wanted to be a writer.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.