“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
“I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“ Death by family silver , I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.” — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
“I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do.… — 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
“The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old “O” rejuvenates every cell… — 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
