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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film. ↗

— Gary Ross

#ask #because #course #dialogue #dinner

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

#back #day #few #filled #his

The reader is the final arbiter. ↗

— Sam Reaves

#drama #inspirational #mystery #romance #romance-novels

Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind. ↗

— D.A. McBride

#inspirational #inspirational

Henny Penny," says Lupe. "Do you know this story?" I shake my head. Conversations with her can turn cryptic in the blink of an eye. "She thinks the sky is falling. Do you see my meaning?" "Not really." "Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one. ↗

— Leanne Hall

#jethro #lupe #inspirational

A life I have lived and have found just that... life. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#fantasy #inspirational #m-j-chrisman #the-legend-of-the-seer #the-remnant

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

#christianity #fantasy #fiction #inspirational #m-j-chrisman

Fate is What You are Born With; Free-Will is What You Do About It” - Drø the Finder – ↗

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

#inspirational #spirituality #inspirational

Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear. ↗

— Gemma Galgani

#christianity #eucharist #inspirational #religion #saint