Christina

“Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’
Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke