Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 2hFor me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It’s like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. Alan Moore 021
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise. Tacitus 020
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Your courage was a small coal that you kept swallowing.” — Anne Sexton 051
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The 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 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. C.G. Jung 051
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“The father’s ‘judgement?’ I sentence you to death by drowning.” Franz Kafka, The Judgement 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"There is nothing permanent except change." — Heraclitus 042
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. H.P. Lovecraft 062
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide 030
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners 031
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” Iris Murdoch 040
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." — Aesop 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." – Amelia Earhart 061
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I 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 051
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“At the end of my suffering / there was a door.” Louise Gluck 062
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed Thomas Moore 061
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 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Midnight people I didn’t know. Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One 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 051
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse? Charles Bukowski 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. Antonio Gramsci 041
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026his 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 083
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But 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 051
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 093
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Victor Hugo 072