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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10h

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." – Amelia Earhart

Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“At the end of my suffering / there was a door.” Louise Gluck

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed Thomas Moore

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“When I’m writing, I know I’m doing the thing I was born to do.” Anne Sexton

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Midnight people I didn’t know. Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. Salvador Dali

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse? Charles Bukowski

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

his silence is my companion now. I ask: of what did my soul die? and the silence answers if your soul died, whose life are you living and when did you become that person? Louise Glück, Averno

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I’d ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon …’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Victor Hugo

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My ‘fear’ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” Franz Kafka

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself! Franz Kafka

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you’re light in the head. But I reckon it’s all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don’t understand and cain’t answer if he did. Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you.’ Lord Summerisle The Wicker Man

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences. H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?” — Louise Gluck

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. Cormac McCarthy

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Not bad for a human.” Bishop - ‘Aliens’

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. Gabriel García Márquez

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I thought you yourself were looking for a burden. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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