Allison Valentine

“I burn'd
And ached for wings”
― John Keats

“She would die of him or be cured.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer