Ashley

“One must take pains to remember that life deals in greys. What is white to one might very well be black to another. It matters not who is right or wrong”
― J.L. Vampa, Autumn of the Grimoire

“If we address stories as archaeological sites”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“MY NAME IS THEO FABER. I’m forty-two years old. And I became a psychotherapist because I was fucked up. That’s the truth—though it’s not what I said during the job interview, when the question was put to me.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“There’s a Shout we do ’bout old pharaoh and Moses. The Lord part the Red Sea and all his people run through. Old pharaoh thinking to follow, but when he do them waters fall in on him! So we say, Pharaoh’s host got lost, and Shout ’bout all the fussing and crying he musta done to see it. I was a boy when Union soldiers come tell us ’bout the Jubilee. Always imagine them blue uniforms was like the waters falling in on old pharaoh—’cause wicked massa and missus them sure nuff did some wailing and fussing to see us go [laughter]. —Interview with Uncle Will, age 67, transliterated from the Gullah by Emma Kraus (hereafter, EK)”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout