Kathy

“Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest

“you ride a winged horse, you’d better have a wide net when you fall. And that takes money!”
― Anne McCaffrey, To Ride Pegasus: (The Talents: Book 1): an astonishing and enthralling fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation

“If you were to roam the world from the arctic goldfields of Kotzebue Sound to the pearl-fisheries of Thursday Island,’ wrote Lowell Thomas when he visited the region in the 1920s, ‘you could find no men more worthy of the title “desperado” than the Pushtuns who live among these jagged, saw-tooth mountains of the Afghan frontier.’

Elliot, Jason. Unexpected Light (p. 56). Pan Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition.”
― Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

“As Publilius Syrus said in the first century BC: Not every question deserves an answer.
Who the heck was Publilius Syrus?
Look up an encyclopaedia.”
― Joy Chambers, The Great Deception