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“Agatha Swanburne - "Do your best before lunch and do your best after lunch. During lunch, have a sandwich.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "So many cupcakes, so little time”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburn - "A journey of a thousand miles is best spent napping.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - “Morning may not put your problems in a new light, but it at least puts them in a new day.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburn - “Never underestimate a Swanburn girl, for a Swanburn girl never underestimates herself.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "No hopeless case is truly without hope.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "Some things just sound better in French.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburne - "Doing your best is no cause for regret.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

“Agatha Swanburn - “Luck is only luck; the bad is often merely good in disguise.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Interrupted Tale

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

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

“The game is afoot.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Grandpa looked at me seriously and said that missing people is the best sad feeling there is.
"You see, Trille lad, if you're sad because you miss someone, then that means you care about that person. And caring about someone is the best thing there is. We carry the people we miss inside us.”
― Maria Parr, Adventures with Waffles

“Gilan," Will said. "I've been thinking...."
Gilan raised his eyebrows to heaven in mock despair. Again the expression reminded Will forcefully of Halt. "Always a problem," said the Ranger. "And what, pray tell, have you been thinking?"
"Well," began Will slowly, "this double knife business is all well and good. But wouldn't it be better just to shoot the swordsmen before he got to close quarters?"
"Yes, Will. It certainly would," Gilan agreed patiently. "But what if you were about to do that and your bowstring broke?"
"I could run and hide," he suggested, but Gilan pressed him.
"What if there were nowhere to run? You're trapped against a sheer cliff. Nowhere to go. Your bowstring just broke and an angry swordsman is coming at you. What then?"
Will shook his head. "I suppose I'd have to fight," he admitted reluctantly.
"Exactly," Gilan agreed. "We avoid close combat whenever possible. But if the time comes when there's no other choice, it's a good idea to be prepared, isn't it?"
"I guess," Will said. Then Horace chimed in with a question.
"What about an axman?" he said. Gilan looked at him, nonplussed for a moment.
"An axman?" he asked.
"Yes," said Horace, warming up to his theme. "What about if you're facing an enemy with a battleax? Do your knives work then?"
Gilan hesitated. "I wouldn't advise anyone to face a battleax with just two knives," he said carefully.
"So what should I do?" Will joined in. Gilan glared from one boy to the other. He had the feeling he was being set up.
"Shoot him," he said shortly. Will shook his head, grinning.
"Can't," he said. "My bowstring's broken."
"Then run and hide," said Gilan, between gritted teeth.
"But there's a cliff," Horace pointed out. "A sheer drop behind him and an angry axman coming at him."
"What do I do?" prompted Will.
Gilan took a deep breath and looked them both in the eye, one after the other.
"Jump off the cliff. It'll be less messy that way.”
― John Flanagan, The Burning Bridge

“I forgot how much fun it is having an apprentice.”
― John Flanagan, The Ruins of Gorlan

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

“Any sign of them yet? he asked. Will looked at him. 'Yes', he said. 'A party of fifty Scotti came though just twenty minutes ago'.
Really? Horace looked startled. He wasn't fully awake yet. Will rolled his eyes to heaven. 'Oh, my word, yes', he said. 'They were riding on oxen and playing bagpipes and drums. Of course not,' he went on. 'If they had come past, I would have woken you-if only to stop your snoring'.
I don't snore', Horace said, with dignity. Will raised his eyebrows. 'Is that so?' he said. 'Then in that case, you'd better chase out that colony of walruses who are in the tent with you...of course you snore.”
― John Flanagan, The Siege of Macindaw

“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