Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great … - Katherine Anne Porter

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

"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."