Ashley Clark > Quotes

“A movement like that can be summed up in this - that redemption, like sunlight, always reaches through the gates, and that we, like flowers, bend toward what grows us. So that the imitations and likenesses we have accepted as originals are exposed as deception, and we are left with the hope of a truer inheritance, a truer promise: a second garden, where all the dead things come alive again and all that was forfeited is restored and al that is fractured becomes a mosaic of color.”
― Ashley Clark

“The button was faded blue, with the imprint of a butterfly.
Something borrowed, perhaps?
Something blue?
'Almost too delicate to be worn,' Harper said.
'What good are beautiful buttons if they aren't worn?... We will live fragile lives, my dear Harper, if we avoid that which is delicate for fear it might break at the seams.”
― Ashley Clark

“Sometimes life gives us those moments. Like the very first flutter of a butterfly's wings. Moments that are so profound and so purely beautiful, you try to capture them so you can come back to them later... But no matter how hard you try to scoop up every detail of the thing, it's never quite the same because a memory isn't living and breathing... Sometimes life is just magic.”
― Ashley Clark

“She was close to hating him as Jesus would permit.'
'Paint and Nectar' by Ashley Clark”
― Ashley Clark