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

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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

“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room