A small glittering thing

While I'm on a quote-kick, might as well toss out another existential fav:

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves that it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

- Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief