Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons Quotes

“This was happiness, she realized. To have purpose. To be needed. To be loved and cared for and respected. To have her adventure, wherever it might lead her next.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“I want more of this. I want to go on adventures with you for the rest of my days—”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“Much like a young child, a dragon you can neither hear nor see is one that is at its most dangerous.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“Perhaps adventures could be for ladies of a certain age, ladies who might have reached a point in their lives when they had quietly given up on the world beyond their kitchen garden as being a place for them to explore. Perhaps adventures were ready and available to anyone and everyone who was willing to take one on.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“We cannot know what lies ahead of us. Our futures are not for us to divine. But what I do know, or what I believe, is that there is indeed a path laid out before us, one we cannot see. And yet we must walk it, placing one foot in front of the other, with our eyes blind and our hearts trusting that we will not lose our way.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“It was a charming falsehood she often told herself, that the act of reading was something akin to a cup of warm milk in literary form, that only a few pages read would see her eyes droop and her thoughts grow weary before she would swiftly succumb to blissful slumber…and then she would sit awake half the night, each page imprinting itself in the place of another lost minute of dreams…a far more accurate description would be to say that the smudged ink from each word accumulated beneath her eyes into a telltale shadow of forfeited sleep and few regrets.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons

“Dragons are perfectly capable of hunting and providing for themselves without human interference, though they are notorious for taking advantage of an outsider’s offer of sustenance whenever the opportunity presents itself.

— from Chapter Eleven of Miss Percy’s Travel Guide (to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons)”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Travel Guide to Welsh Moors and Feral Dragons