“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?” — Alan Bradley Hamlet Copy Share Image
“ Death by family silver , I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.” — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. ” — Alan Bradley Silence Copy Share Image
“I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did.” — Alan Bradley Love Copy Share Image
“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Commodities Copy Share Image
“Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Pride Copy Share Image
“Die, witch," I managed, making a cross of my forefingers.” — Alan Bradley Cross Forefingers Copy Share Image
“I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped… — Alan Bradley Breathing 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… — Alan Bradley Cannibals Copy Share Image
“. . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry. I glowed with… — Alan Bradley Bond Copy Share Image
“Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against… — Alan Bradley Parenting 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… — Alan Bradley Blood Copy Share Image
“I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them. 'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“The exchange of a wife for a pair of gates( “The finest this side Paradise,”) Brandwyn had written in his diary” — Alan Bradley Diary 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 Time 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 Attention 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… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring. Those boys who did not fail, yet did not excel, were… — Alan Bradley Camouflage Copy Share Image
“What are we going to do, Dogger?' It seemed a reasonable question. After all he had been through, surely Dogger knew something… — Alan Bradley Hope 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… — Alan Bradley Helplessness Copy Share Image
“I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a… — Alan Bradley Corpses 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 Air Copy Share Image
“And Miss Ophelia?" he asked, getting round to her at last. "Miss Ophelia? Well, to tell you the truth, Ned, we're all… — Alan Bradley Truth Copy Share Image
“How I longed to tell her about Harriet—but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain, and I… — Alan Bradley Shattered glass Copy Share Image
“Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy… — Alan Bradley Damned Copy Share Image
“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get… — Alan Bradley Books 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
“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
“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
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — Alan Bradley Friend Copy Share Image
“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
