ππ¬ “Ghosts, you could say, flock to women left alone.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
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ππ¬ “Even though the soles of her feet felt like she was walking on broken glass, she glided across the greenroom and stood face-to-face with her father.” Zoraida CΓ³rdova bringing a little Hans Christian Andersen to her Disney-inspired Little Mermaid romance retelling, Kiss the Girl π§ββοΈ
ππ¬ “Live in a house for any length of time, and you make it your own memory palace.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
ππ¬ “Uncomfortable truths, buried secrets, disputed accounts: ghost stories side out of the shadowlands, a response to the ambiguous and poorly understood.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
ππ¬ “Those aspects of a life that are discontinuous, fragmented, or unexpected, are made whole through the ghost story.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
ππ¬ “A haunted house is a memory palace made real: a physical space that retains memories that might otherwise be forgotten or that might remain only in fragments.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
ππ¬ “The past we’re most afraid to speak aloud of in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.” Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places π»
Finished reading: Deep Blue (Survival Instincts, #0.5) by Adriana Anders π
Thank you @cygnoir@social.lol for pointing the way to this beautiful thread about the power of connections we make online. ππ¬ “She strode the earth clad in the invisible armor of their virtual companionship.” β Lev Grossman, The Magician King