# Quote — Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer

> “Are you a practitioner?” I ask. “A wizard?”
>
> “Sorceress, my dear,” she says. “Practitioner is how the gentlemen have styled themselves, as quacks now style themselves as physicians.”

- Author: [Ben Aaronovitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch.md)
- Book: [What Abigail Did That Summer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/what-abigail-did-that-summer.md)
- Page: 203
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/what-abigail-did-that-summer/are-you-a-practitioner

## More from this book

> You make a plan without intelligence—you might as well not have a plan at all.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/what-abigail-did-that-summer/you-make-a-plan.md)

> “Are there aliens?” Simon asks Indigo.
>
> “Not that I know of,” she says. “Unless you count cats.”

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/what-abigail-did-that-summer/are-there-aliens.md)

> If you run everywhere you miss stuff that you might have been better off noticing—just saying.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/what-abigail-did-that-summer/if-you-run.md)