“I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that… — Alan Bradley Aristocracy Copy Share Image
TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the… — Alan Bradley Cinema Copy Share Image
“I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.' Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“The word “actually,” like its cousin “frankly,” should, by itself, be a tip-off to most people that what is to follow is… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being… — Alan Bradley Loneliness Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Kill him." Dr. Kissing repeated my words in a flat, matter-of-fact voice. "Just so. But 'kill,' as you will have observed, like… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who… — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted… — Alan Bradley Closest friends Copy Share Image
“A long hallway, hung profusely with dark, water-stained sporting prints, served as a lobby, in which centuries of sacrificed kippers had left… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as… — Alan Bradley Humorous Copy Share Image
“I must warn you at the outset that I'm not at my best conversing with little girls," he announced. I bit my… — Alan Bradley Nature Copy Share Image
“The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But… — Alan Bradley Fashion Copy Share Image
“I brought to mind the image of the stranger lying there in the first light of dawn: the slight growth of whiskers… — Alan Bradley Imagery Copy Share Image
“I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel." At least the man had… — Alan Bradley Mother Copy Share Image
“Poor Dogger! That's what I thought, even though Daphne told me I should never say that about anyone: "It's not only condescending,… — Alan Bradley Condescending Copy Share Image
“I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar.… — Alan Bradley Chemistry Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered, Dogger," I asked, "if wickedness is a chemical state?" "Indeed I have, Miss Flavia," he said. "I have… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them. 'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“The exchange of a wife for a pair of gates( “The finest this side Paradise,”) Brandwyn had written in his diary” — Alan Bradley Diary Copy Share Image
“I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped… — Alan Bradley Breathing Copy Share Image
“There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words… — Alan Bradley Communication Copy Share Image
“If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be--Porcelain… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“In ordinary circumstances, I would have responded to such a command by sending up a reply that would have given Undine's mother… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against… — Alan Bradley Parenting Copy Share Image
“. . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry. I glowed with… — Alan Bradley Bond Copy Share Image
“…it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
“It's a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her...Between girls there is a… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen… — Alan Bradley Librarians Copy Share Image
“I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored… — Alan Bradley Art Copy Share Image
“History is like the kitchen sink,” Adam answered. “Everything goes round and round until eventually, sooner or later, most of it goes… — Alan Bradley History Copy Share Image
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Do What?' 'Lie,' he said. 'Why do you fabricate these outlandish stories?' 'Well,' I wanted to say, 'there are those of us… — Alan Bradley Lying Copy Share Image
“When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that… — Alan Bradley Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
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