Wild ghosts escape from dreams…
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
2. I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
3. The rhythms of freak are ruled by the holiday calendar, and specifically by Halloween, which as we all know, can be traced back to All Hallows’ Eve, an ancient religious rite in which priests raced around the streets of Dublin throwing snack-size Snickers bars at impoverished children.
~Steve Almond, “Night of the Living Freak,” Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, 2004
4.October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
~Rainbow Rowell, Attachments, 2011
5. Eat, drink, and be scary.
~Rosie O’Donnell
6. There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
7. Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com
8. Never let your kids buy an off-the-shelf Halloween costume. Forbid it, no matter how close you may be to the witching hour. Instead, help them make their own. Encourage them to use their imaginations and their ingenuity. Show them that what can be created is often better than what can be bought. And besides, don’t the darkest, most frightening things live inside us anyway?
~Joe Kita, “What I Know” (The Best Halloween Costume)
