“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I reached out and touched his hands and they stilled at once. I had observed—although I did not often make use of… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“. . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry. I glowed with… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Was the pie good, luv?" she asked. I'd forgotten the pie until that moment. I took a leaf from Dr. Darby's notebook.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The reason for this, of course, is that while you're gleefully anticipating the event, the… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
“Wrapped up in the music, I threw myself into an overstuffed chair and let my legs dangle over the arm, the position… — Alan Bradley 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 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 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
“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
“…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
