Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important and when you say of a thing “nothing hangs on it” it sounds like blasphemy. There’s never any knowledge –how am I to put it- which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won’t have things hanging on it forever.

--Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M Forester

Amazing Grace

"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."

- Tennessee Williams