One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley Ability Copy Share Image
“The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.” — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“The press was ruthless, but then so was the church. Flavia de Luce” — Alan Bradley Church Copy Share Image
“If you need me, I shall be weeping at the bottom of my wardrobe.” — Alan Bradley Need Copy Share Image
“You never know what you're getting into when you stick your nose in other people's rubbish.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
“as if Mother Nature had nodded off a little, and let the colors leak away. In” — Alan Bradley Leak Copy Share Image
“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only… — Alan Bradley Grief Copy Share Image
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack… — Alan Bradley Broads Copy Share Image
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. — Alan Bradley Christmas Copy Share Image
“I drew in a deep breath, sucking the sour tange into my lungs and savoring the chemical smell of decay. But this… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“If you’re insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my… — Alan Bradley Personal hygiene Copy Share Image
“How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.' I'd send her a card alright.… — Alan Bradley Manners Copy Share Image
“Ned stuck out his calloused fingers and gave my hand a surprisingly gentle shake. It was like shaking hands with a pineapple.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell “So utterly Pavlovian,” Feely said” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Look after this girl, Mildred. She's a menace to murderers." A menace to murderers? I quite liked that. If I ever have… — Alan Bradley Business Copy Share Image
“Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don't you think?' She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it!… — Alan Bradley Chemicals Copy Share Image
“Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old… — Alan Bradley Cruel Copy Share Image
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
“The panel on the right portrayed Jesus emerging from his tomb, as Mary Magdalene, in a red dress (also iron, or perhaps… — Alan Bradley Mary magdalene 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 Baths Copy Share Image
“I detected instantly that she didn’t like me. It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“Being alone,” I snapped, without meaning to be intentionally rude. I was simply being truthful. “Being alone,” she said, nodding. I could… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as… — Alan Bradley Chemistry Copy Share Image
“Vaporized by the sun! Wasn't that what the universe had in store for all of us? There would come a day when… — Alan Bradley Carbon Copy Share Image
“But getting back to my old friend water, the thing of it is this: No matter how hot or how cold, no… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment… — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Seen from the air, the male mind must look rather like the canals of Europe, with ideas being towed along well-worn towpaths… — Alan Bradley Female mind Copy Share Image
“I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a… — Alan Bradley Food Copy Share Image
