My name's Ashely. I'm 19. I'm from Edmonton, Alberta which is in Canada. I love to read, write, and paint.

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Some of my favorite books are:

Pride and Prejudice - Austen

The Mysteries of Udolpho - Radcliffe

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde

A Density of Souls - Christopher Rice

Mansfield Park - Austen

Persuasion - Austen

Villette - Bronte

Shirley - Bronte

A Long Fatal Love Chase - Alcott

The Fountainhead - Rand

Everything by Anne Rice except for her Beauty series

The Daughters of the Moon series - Ewing

The Black Jewel series - Bishop

And the list goes on. It is one of my goals in life to have a library bigger than my bedroom, living room and kitchen all put together.

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I love music. Some of my favorite bands/groups/individuals are: 30 Seconds to Mars, CKY, HIM, System of a Down, Taproot, Deadsy, Deftones, PJ Harvey, Orson, Alexisonfire, Meatloaf, Guns N Roses, T Rex, Disturbed, Sweet, Supertramp, AC/DC, Guano Apes, Brand New, Chevelle, Concrete Blonde, Bowie, Blondie, Alanah Miles, Soul Asylum, Led Zepplin, Holly McNarland, Hot Action Cop, MSI, Placebo, Radiohead, Shinedown, Unwritten Law, The Cars, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Janis Joplin. I have a varying taste in music, so I could go on and on, but I think I said too many already.

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I read this book called Death in Venice once. I found it weird, but intriguing, and there was this one thing that the main character said/thought that I really found interesting.

"For passion like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself."

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This is one of my favorite poems. It's from Christopher Rice's A Density of Souls.

Fear cannot touch me...

It can only taunt me,

It cannot take me,

Just tell me where to go...

I can either follow,

Or stay in my bed...

I can hold on to the things that I know...

The dead stay dead,

They cannot walk,

The shadows are darkness,

And darkness can't talk.

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Another favorite quote of mine is from Jim Morrison:

"We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces."

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And of course you've gotta love Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Okay, for those out there that have read Jane Austen's Persuasion you know where this next thing comes from. It's just my favorite part of the book.

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than women, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. - Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? - I had not waited these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of the voice, when they would be lost on others. - Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe to be most fervent, most undeviating in F.W. I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening, or never."

I just love that part so much. I'm a big romantic.

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Another poem I've taken a liking to is by Rudyard Kipling:

Roses red and roses white

plucked I for my love's delight.

She would none of all my posies

bade me gather her blue roses.

Half the world I wandered through,

seeking where such flowers grew.

Half the world unto my quest,

answered me with laugh and jest.

Home I came at wintertide,

but my silly love had died.

Seeking with her latest breath,

roses from the arms of death.

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More Quotes

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

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Love and death aren't far apart. They both depend upon the heart.

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If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, do we not revenge?

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By doubting we are led to inquire. By inquiring we perceive the truth.

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O, what man may within him hide, though an angel on the outward side.

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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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Thou wishes to know who thou art, long has this troubled thee, but I say tis better to know what thou canst do and do it like Hercules.

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In times of change it is the learners who will inherit the earth. While the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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People show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

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The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

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Mastery, unlike lightning, does not happen in a flash.

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You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.

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To thine own self be true.

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For everything there is a Season, and a Time for every purpose under Heaven.

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Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

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One ought, everyday at least, to hear a litle song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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Information about my stories:

'Wanted':

Okay so go to this website, and on the left there's this group of 4 tattoos, all different variations of the same thing, and the one farthest on the left is Finn's tattoo. I know you can't see it too good, but yeah, that's what I picture Finn's tattoo to be.I like the whole brother symbolism, and thought it goes good with what I have planned. So yeah, that's for all you people who have been wanting to know what Finn's tattoo looks like.

The tattoo is not mine.