“It's a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her...Between girls there is a… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.” — Alan Bradley Truth 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
“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
“Sanctified cyanide Super-quick arsenic Higgledy-piggledy Into the Soup. Put out the mourning lamps Call for coffin clamps Teach them to trifle with… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“I remembered a piece of sisterly advice, which Feely once gave Daffy and me: "If ever you're accosted by a man," she'd… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“People love to talk--especially when the talking involves answering the questions of others--because it makes them feel wanted. [...] I had long… — Alan Bradley Long ago 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
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 never be deflected by unpleasantness. I want you to remember that. Although it may not be apparent to others, your… — Alan Bradley Middle of the road 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her.” — Alan Bradley Life 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 Sense of humor Copy Share Image
“I gave her a partial smile and kept the rest of it for myself...” — Alan Bradley Sleep 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 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 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 man 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 Copy Share Image
“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,… — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That… — Alan Bradley Nature Copy Share Image
“I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do.… — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
“But what he said was true enough: I had recently destroyed a perfectly good set of wire braces by straightening them to… — Alan Bradley Humour Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own… — Alan Bradley Company 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
