Kathryn Davis said this quote

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

~ Kathryn Davis

The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

~ Kathryn Davis

There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything.

~ Kathryn Davis

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

~ Kathryn Davis