“Feely had the knack of being able to screw one side of her face into a witchlike horror while keeping the other… — Alan Bradley 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
“I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.” — Alan Bradley Seven days 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
“Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it—if that makes any sense. Prayer goes… — Alan Bradley Prayer Copy Share Image
“I was gazing at a cup of cocoa on my night table. As I focused on the thick brown skin that had… — Alan Bradley Brown skin 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
“And then, as reason seeped back into my overheated brain, I would realize how much alike we were: that my father angered… — Alan Bradley Parenting Copy Share Image
“It’s not polite to ask ” he said with a slight smile. “One must never ask a policeman his secrets.” “Why not… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely’s thrall, hanging on her every word like… — Alan Bradley Sinking Feeling Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and… — Alan Bradley Flavia Copy Share Image
“Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.” — Alan Bradley Life 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
“We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who… — Alan Bradley Death 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
“I don't care' is the last bit of baggage to be tossed overboard in a losing argument.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never… — Alan Bradley Age Copy Share Image
“Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave… — Alan Bradley Bicycle 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
“In ordinary circumstances, I would have responded to such a command by sending up a reply that would have given Undine's mother… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls… — Alan Bradley Boys Copy Share Image
“as if Mother Nature had nodded off a little, and let the colors leak away. In” — Alan Bradley Mother nature Copy Share Image
