Shirley

“When we have really resolved to achieve something,” my father once said, “we succeed. We only have to want it, Juliane.”
― Juliane Koepcke, When I Fell From the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

“He moved quickly away from her through the ring, his whole body starting forward with the big animal in two-point and then -- the horse's legs extended before and behind her, a carousel pony but real, the immense thrust invisible to anyone but the boy on the creature's back -- he was rising, rising, rising. . .
And aloft.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Buffalo Soldier

“In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world’s first alternating-current power”
― Clive Cussler, The Chase