Sue Gray

“But the “hut” turnedout to be a passage between two great rocks. At last utterexhaustion compelled us to rest. The site was not in the leastfit for camping; the exceedingly narrow trail skirted a stony,natural wall, and, on the other side, ended perpendicularly.We lay down on a rocky mattress whose roughness we unpleas-antly felt through our clothes and endeavoured to remembereven in our sleep that we were perched on the edge of a preci-pice whose depth was unfathomable in the night. In such wise we spent the second happy night of our wonder-ful adventure. Day had not yet broken when Yongden and1 loaded our burdens on our backs and continued the trampthrough the forest. More than twenty-four hours had nowelapsed since we had eaten and drunk. We had not yet becomeaccustomed to prolonged fasts, and this first one was hard tobear.”
― Alexandra David-Néel, My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

“I’ve never been in favour of equal opportunities.’ ‘No?’ ‘Of course not. I’ve always thought women should be in charge.”
― Christopher Fowler, The Water Room

“It’s what I’ve always said – alcohol’s a tonic. Where most fellows go wrong is that they don’t take enough of it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Full Moon

“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”
― Eckhart Tolle