"I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead..."

""I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed on a splintered wreck I've come to care for…whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them…""

- Annie Dillard