Courtney

“Don't you love being alive?" asked Miranda. "Don't you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming in the next lot, and automobile horns and little bands playing in the street and the smell of food cooking?"
"I love to swim, too." said Adam.
"So do I," said Miranda, "we never did swim together.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“That was one of the things about him. He walked this line between the comic and the poignant, between the certainly doomed and the hopelessly hopeful. In time I came to think it the common ground of all humanity.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness