“ Death by family silver , I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.” — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Yaroo!" I shouted, and I didn't give a beetle's bottom who heard me. "Ya-rooo!” — Alan Bradley Joy Copy Share Image
“Spare us the pout, there’s enough lip in the world without you adding to it.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. ” — Alan Bradley Silence Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own… — Alan Bradley Company Copy Share Image
“I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to… — Alan Bradley Blanks Copy Share Image
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
“Prayer goes up and thought comes down -- or so it seems. As far as I can tell, that's the only difference.” — Alan Bradley Prayer Copy Share Image
“Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it—if that makes any sense. Prayer goes… — Alan Bradley Prayer Copy Share Image
“Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount… — Alan Bradley Energy Copy Share Image
“Impertinent children ought to be given six coats of shellac and set up in public places as a warning to others.” — Alan Bradley Children Copy Share Image
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never… — Alan Bradley Age Copy Share Image
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“I wanted to cry. I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other,… — Alan Bradley Grief Copy Share Image
“I had to suppress a smile. Sherlock Holmes once remarked of his brother, Mycroft, that you were as unlikely to find him… — Alan Bradley Parenting Copy Share Image
“It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so. I wanted… — Alan Bradley Food Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle… — Alan Bradley Breath Copy Share Image
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls… — Alan Bradley Bluffing Copy Share Image
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2” — Alan Bradley Angel Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Sanctified cyanide Super-quick arsenic Higgledy-piggledy Into the Soup. Put out the mourning lamps Call for coffin clamps Teach them to trifle with… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse,… — Alan Bradley Curse Copy Share Image
“We Three Kings of Leicester Square, Selling ladies’ underwear, So fantastic, no elastic, Only tuppence a pair.” — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.” — Alan Bradley Dictionary Copy Share Image
“And then, as reason seeped back into my overheated brain, I would realize how much alike we were: that my father angered… — Alan Bradley Father Copy Share Image
“Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“AND THE PERSON OUTSIDE TO WHOM YOU WERE speaking?” Inspector Hewitt asked. "Dogger," I said. "First name?" "Flavia," I said. I couldn't… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I'll ring for Mrs. Mullet," Feely said, reaching for a velvet pull that hung near the mantelpiece, and which probably hadn't been… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“I was halfway up the stairs when the doorbell rang. "Dash it all!" I said. There was nothing I hated more than… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. — Alan Bradley Broadcasting Copy Share Image
“I reached out and touched his hands and they stilled at once. I had observed—although I did not often make use of… — Alan Bradley Time Copy Share Image
“Feely had the knack of being able to screw one side of her face into a witchlike horror while keeping the other… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Was the pie good, luv?" she asked. I'd forgotten the pie until that moment. I took a leaf from Dr. Darby's notebook.… — Alan Bradley Time Copy Share Image
“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image