“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.” — Alan Bradley Compass Copy Share Image
“Any barrier, I had learned--even a potential one--was best breached by pretending urgency.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.” — Alan Bradley Dark 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
“...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.” — Alan Bradley Commodities Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.” — Alan Bradley Language Copy Share Image
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever?” — Alan Bradley Hamlet 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 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
“I drew in a deep breath, sucking the sour tange into my lungs and savoring the chemical smell of decay. But this… — Alan Bradley 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
“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 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
“Ned stuck out his calloused fingers and gave my hand a surprisingly gentle shake. It was like shaking hands with a pineapple.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell “So utterly Pavlovian,” Feely said” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“The panel on the right portrayed Jesus emerging from his tomb, as Mary Magdalene, in a red dress (also iron, or perhaps… — Alan Bradley Mary magdalene Copy Share Image
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand… — Alan Bradley Book 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“Wrapped up in the music, I threw myself into an overstuffed chair and let my legs dangle over the arm, the position… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“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
“Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it -- if that makes any sense.… — Alan Bradley Prayer Copy Share Image
“one’s innate desire for escape.’ Everyone needs to escape, don’t they? In one way or another, I mean.” — Alan Bradley Escape Copy Share Image
“One of the things I love about myself is my ability to remain open to suggestion.” — Alan Bradley 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
“Spare us the pout, there’s enough lip in the world without you adding to it.” — Alan Bradley 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
“Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. ” — Alan Bradley Silence Copy Share Image
“Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?” — Alan Bradley Evil 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 don't care' is the last bit of baggage to be tossed overboard in a losing argument.” — Alan Bradley 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
“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
“As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.” — Alan Bradley Advice Copy Share Image
“Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?” — Alan Bradley 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
“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.” — Alan Bradley Pride Copy Share Image
