“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
“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words… — Alan Bradley Communication Copy Share Image
“I had to suppress a smile. Sherlock Holmes once remarked of his brother, Mycroft, that you were as unlikely to find him… — Alan Bradley Parenting Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–” — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“As he drank, I remembered that there's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His… — Alan Bradley Buckingham palace Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
“I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered.… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don't you think?' She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant… — Alan Bradley Friendship Copy Share Image
“Spare us the pout, there’s enough lip in the world without you adding to it.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Excuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the… — Alan Bradley Life Copy Share Image
“It was a lie and I detected it at once. As an accomplished fibber myself, I spotted the telltale signs of an… — Alan Bradley Lie Copy Share Image
“I must warn you at the outset that I'm not at my best conversing with little girls," he announced. I bit my… — Alan Bradley Nature Copy Share Image
“They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked. 'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!' 'Hate them?… — Alan Bradley Family Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms… — Alan Bradley Arms Copy Share Image
“As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.” — Alan Bradley Advice Copy Share Image
“being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.” — Alan Bradley Death Copy Share Image
“Mother Goose! I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a… — Alan Bradley Humour Copy Share Image
“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only… — Alan Bradley Grief Copy Share Image
“Here we were, Father and I, shut up in a plain little room, and for the first time in my life having… — Alan Bradley Children Copy Share Image
“It always surprises me after a family row to find that the world outdoors has remained the same. While the passions and… — Alan Bradley Family Copy Share Image
“The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.” — Alan Bradley Humor Copy Share Image
