Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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