Ashley Ann

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She gave me peace To want is to lack. That is what it means.”
― Chris Riddell

“[D]eath serves as a sobering reminder of our limited time on this Earth, thereby compelling us to endeavour to leave behind not insipid, uninspiring lives, but rather true manifestations of our ideas in their tangible forms, whose permanence can far outlive our own.”
― Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein