“Your courage was a small coal that you kept swallowing.” — Anne Sexton
Ashley Stokes
@ashleystokes.bsky.social
Writer and Ghostwriter Weird-Horror and Comedy https://ashleystokes.net/ https://theghostingcompany.com/ Rep'd by John Baker at PFD
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. Robert Frost
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. C.G. Jung
“The father’s ‘judgement?’ I sentence you to death by drowning.” Franz Kafka, The Judgement
"There is nothing permanent except change." — Heraclitus
We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. H.P. Lovecraft
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” Iris Murdoch
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." — Aesop
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." – Amelia Earhart
I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath
“At the end of my suffering / there was a door.” Louise Gluck
It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed Thomas Moore
“When I’m writing, I know I’m doing the thing I was born to do.” Anne Sexton
