Katherine

“Because the Greeks thought that wondering was the beginning of thinking, they asked questions about everything, whether useful or useless.”
― Jeanne Bendick, Archimedes and the Door of Science

“Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Collin Powell, a Vietnam Vet, then offered one of the most beautiful tributes I've ever heard. "You went, you served, you suffered. The names of eight of your sisters are etched on the wall for having made the supreme sacrifice and yet your service and your sacrifice have been mostly invisible for all these intervening years. When you finished what you had to do, you came quietly home, you stepped back into the background from which you had modestly come. You melted back into a society which for too long now had ignored the vital and endless work that falls to women and is not appreciated as it should be....”
― Diane Carlson Evans, Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.

“I'm not afraid of going into the water.
I'm afraid of not coming out.
Irrational, I know. But there you have it.
So why was I there, in an open boat, about to die during the mother of all storms?
Fireworks.
And Love.”
― Kathy Reichs, The Bone Hacker

“I waited for five long years for an engagement ring that never came. Until I decided it was time to by my own dang jewelry.”
― Amelia Pine, Killer Brownies: A Sea Glass Beach Mystery