being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the…

“…it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a…

— Alan Bradley

“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”

— Alan Bradley

“If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All…

— Alan Bradley

“The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my…

— Alan Bradley

“If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be--Porcelain and I…

— Alan Bradley

“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.”

— Alan Bradley

“Die, witch," I managed, making a cross of my forefingers.”

— Alan Bradley

“There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the…

— Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways…

— Alan Bradley

“To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with our blood…

— Alan Bradley

“Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would…

— Alan Bradley

“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.”

— Alan Bradley

“While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.' In short, we've…

— Alan Bradley

“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.”

— Alan Bradley

“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.”

— Alan Bradley