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

“Nature is the art of God.”
― Dante Alighieri

“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

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno