“Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.” — Alan Bradley Expressions Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley Ability Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.” — Alan Bradley Experience Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them.” — Alan Bradley Liar Copy Share Image
“as if Mother Nature had nodded off a little, and let the colors leak away. In” — Alan Bradley Leak Copy Share Image
“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.” — Alan Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
“I gave her a partial smile and kept the rest of it for myself...” — Alan Bradley Kept Copy Share Image
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — Alan Bradley Friend 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
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack… — Alan Bradley Broads Copy Share Image
“I realized at once that a great actress can never be greater than when she's starring in her own life.” — Alan Bradley Actress Copy Share Image
“If you’re insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my… — Alan Bradley Personal hygiene Copy Share Image
“Why then had I heard nothing? Everyone knows that the killing of a human being requires the exertion of a certain amount… — Alan Bradley Energy Copy Share Image
“I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to… — Alan Bradley Blanks Copy Share Image
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open… — Alan Bradley Book Copy Share Image
“Prayer goes up and thought comes down -- or so it seems. As far as I can tell, that's the only difference.” — Alan Bradley Prayer Copy Share Image
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable… — Alan Bradley Baths Copy Share Image
“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever… — Alan Bradley Flavia 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 Cruel Copy Share Image
“It was quite wrong of me Had I heard what I thought I’d heard or were my ears playing hob with me… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so. I wanted… — Alan Bradley Food Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle… — Alan Bradley Breath Copy Share Image
“Kill him." Dr. Kissing repeated my words in a flat, matter-of-fact voice. "Just so. But 'kill,' as you will have observed, like… — Alan Bradley Kill Copy Share Image
“I wanted to cry. I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which… — Alan Bradley 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
“Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?” — Alan Bradley Sweetness Lie Copy Share Image
“Die, witch," I managed, making a cross of my forefingers.” — Alan Bradley Cross Forefingers Copy Share Image
“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.” — Alan Bradley Heaven Copy Share Image
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Pride Copy Share Image
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry! — Alan Bradley Chemistry Copy Share Image
“Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.” — Alan Bradley Girl Copy Share Image
“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Commodities Copy Share Image
“I don't care' is the last bit of baggage to be tossed overboard in a losing argument.” — Alan Bradley Losing 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
“ Death by family silver , I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind.” — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?” — Alan Bradley Hamlet 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
“Yaroo!" I shouted, and I didn't give a beetle's bottom who heard me. "Ya-rooo!” — Alan Bradley Joy Copy Share Image
“In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse,… — Alan Bradley Curse Copy Share Image
