445 Quotes by Stewart Stafford

When I first started following writers on social media, I imagined a deluge of profound quotes, writing tips and insights into the plight of wordsmiths. There was some of that. Mostly though, my timeline was taken up with their obsession with coffee: 'I want coffee/I'm having coffee/I've had coffee.' Then came photos of their favourite coffee mug/pot/shop/barista. So, if you've enjoyed a recently-published book, give credit to writers: the vampiric aficionados of the coffee cherry.

To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.

A man will never receive an invitation to participate in the secret relationships the woman in his life has with other females.

All vampires are brothers in the brotherhood of night!

Moral stains are wiped clean with the passing of the transgressor. They do not pass down to their descendants or others of the same faith or ethnicity through osmosis. Those using the very notion of inherited guilt as a stick to beat others with are revealing more about their problematic natures than anyone bearing their accusations.

Are those conspirators that you spy through your window or is it a mirror reflecting the chattering parasites in your mind?

The Green Rose by Stewart StaffordThrough fractured eyes,I see the rose I once plucked,In another man's hands.And mistakes that cannot be unmade,Sins that must go unforgiven,A resigned reluctance to surrender all hope.Those fingers enwrapping,The slender stem,That only holds spiky thorns for me now.I watch and reminisce,So close and familiar,Yet so alien and barren.I turn and walk away,Leaving the green rose,In place on the grave of what once was.© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.

Stalkers have an obsessive over-identification with their unwilling target but also a latent envy of their talents and/or beauty, If they can't possess the person totally, they will destroy the victim's qualities that they can never have.

2020 is the year that black people became the center of the universe, white people got evicted from the human race, and buying toilet paper became the new gold rush.