Ali Stinchfield

“he no longer dreams of flight
but of a fall
that draws like lightning
a profile of infinity”
― Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems, 1956-1998

“That's why we hold onto ideas of things that were and things we need to be: The idea of someone saves something about ourselves. And the more we hold onto those fragments of a person, those soundbite dreams that distract us from the moment, we end up with a few distilled memories that we've turned into life-sustaining hopes, and we piece it all together and place it on the shoulders of the person who we thought loved us enough to make us love ourselves.”
― Brianna Weist

“It is not hard to hear this music, but it is very difficult to hear it as music.”
― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

“you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice