“Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.”

—  Stephen R. Lawhead

Source: The Skin Map (2010), p. 131

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