“The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies… — Alan Bradley 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.” — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I'd learned quite early in life that the mind loves nothing better than to spook itself with outlandish stories, as if the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“As was your mother, you have been given the fatal gift of genius. Because of it, your life will not be an… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Excuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the… — 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
“Here we were, Father and I, shut up in a plain little room, and for the first time in my life having… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Was my life always to be like this? I wondered.Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow?… — Alan Bradley 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 constitute a… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“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 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 to my… — Alan Bradley 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 and I… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“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 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 interesting ways… — 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 our blood… — Alan Bradley 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 spinster? Would… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
