I’ve studied history all my life and I hated that every story of every remarkable person ended with death. What would they have thought if they’d been allowed to watch history unfold? You know, it’s like reaching the end of your favorite novel, wondering what goes on in the lives of the characters outside the pages.

Oh, no. Something was terribly, terribly wrong. All his life, Michael had tried to distance himself from the paranormal. He valued the ordinary and never sought to stick his nose in places it didn’t belong. But now Luke had him thinking that it might be cool to participate in one of his ridiculous EVP sessions.

Kate, don’t move,” Michael whispered.“Why?” “There’s someone out there.” Kate drew in a shaky breath. “Is it an alive someone?” she asked. “No.

For as long as he could remember, Michael had felt caught somewhere between the world of the living and the world of the dead. But in everything he thought and everything he did, he'd always chosen life.

The point is when you're involved with the paranormal, don't be surprised when the paranormal gets involved with you.

Death never plays by the rules. And I think that's why we, as mortal beings, fear it so much. Not because it's an inevitability, but because it's so unpredictable. We all know it's coming for us. We can just never be sure exactly when.

It was easy to forget that the real ghost stories had little to do with that cinematic nonsense and everything to do with the human experience: life, love, loss, faith, redemption.

They tell you all the time that life isn’t fair. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past twenty-eight years, it’s that death is even less fair. It’s the one thing in the world that doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care who you are, how much money you have, what you’ve done in life. It can come for you any time it wants.

The whole idea of casting out was brutal and unfair. Death didn’t dehumanize these spirits. Centuries of superstitions and rituals and ghost stories had done that, turning innocent souls into monsters in the minds of the living.