“…it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour… — 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… — Alan Bradley Humor 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… — Alan Bradley Fashion 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 Food Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Pride 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 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… — Alan Bradley Agonizing 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 Psychology 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… — 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… — Alan Bradley Family 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 Language Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — 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
“I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did.” — Alan Bradley Love Copy Share Image
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2” — Alan Bradley Angel 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
“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
“I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a… — Alan Bradley Death 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 Setting Sun Copy Share Image
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. — Alan Bradley Christmas Copy Share Image
