Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was… — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
“Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it -- if that makes any sense.… — Alan Bradley 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
“…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
“While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.' In short, we've… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
