Abigail

“Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.”
― John Flanagan, The Ruins of Gorlan

“Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck."
"Very wise," Halt replied. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do in this situation?"
Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's in the right place for a channel. It I were digging one, this is where I'd dig the channel. So ..."
"So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said.
"Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck," he said.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Mingle the starlight with your lives and you won’t be fretted by trifles”
― Maria Mitchell

“Agatha Swanburn - “This and that left here and there means a trip and a fall every now and then.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale