postcard from nowhere

She says there are always two worlds running side by side, one is called the truth, or the way things should have happened, and the other's called what really happened, and most o fthe time the two don't converge, but every now and then they do and she says those are the times we call moments of Grace. She says some people only get a few of those moments and other people get a few more, but the important thing is to live toward them, to be ready for them, to act as if they are always about to happen, and in that acting, make them so.

- Pam Houston, Sight Hound