Veneta

“I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Every country has the government it deserves.”
― Joseph de Maistre

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James