“Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.” — Alan Bradley Expressions Copy Share Image
“Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.” — Alan Bradley Bite Copy Share Image
“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.” — Alan Bradley Compass Copy Share Image
“Any barrier, I had learned--even a potential one--was best breached by pretending urgency.” — Alan Bradley Pretending Copy Share Image
“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.” — Alan Bradley Dark Copy Share Image
“I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own.” — Alan Bradley Personal experience Copy Share Image
“…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.” — Alan Bradley Attention Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–” — Alan Bradley Friends Copy Share Image
“There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place… — Alan Bradley Last place Copy Share Image
“If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He’d have never would have given us cinema. Or the national… — Alan Bradley God Meant 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… — Alan Bradley Family Copy Share Image
“Brookie was a good boy,” she said, “but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal… — Alan Bradley Good boy 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 Oxygen Copy Share Image
“Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not… — Alan Bradley Maiden Fair Copy Share Image
“I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude… — Alan Bradley Explosives Copy Share Image
“Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.” — Alan Bradley Dark humor Copy Share Image
“I realized with an unexpected shock that without either ale or female within easy reach, Ned was somehow incomplete. Why hadn't I… — Alan Bradley Dr watson Copy Share Image
“I waved my hand like a frantic dust mop fingers spread ludicrously wide apart as if to say “What jolly fun ”… — Alan Bradley Fingers 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 First time 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 Life 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 Prayer Copy Share Image
“Once, when I remarked that she looked like a disoriented bandicoot, she leapt up from the piano bench and beat me within… — Alan Bradley Schubert Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A… — Alan Bradley Dreamt Copy Share Image
It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning… — Alan Bradley Birth Copy Share Image
“You must have loved her awfully," I said, realizing even as I spoke that I made it sound as if Fenella were… — Alan Bradley Love 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
“I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a… — Alan Bradley Food 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Vaporized by the sun! Wasn't that what the universe had in store for all of us? There would come a day when… — Alan Bradley Carbon Copy Share Image
“But getting back to my old friend water, the thing of it is this: No matter how hot or how cold, no… — Alan Bradley Friendship 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
“Being alone,” I snapped, without meaning to be intentionally rude. I was simply being truthful. “Being alone,” she said, nodding. I could… — Alan Bradley Reply Copy Share Image
