“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
“I wanted to shake the stuffing out of him; I wanted to hug him; I wanted to die.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.' I'd send her a card alright.… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine.” — Alan Bradley Dark humor Copy Share Image
“A peculiar feeling passed over me--or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“Seed biscuits and milk! I hated Mrs. Mullet's seed biscuits the way Saint Paul hated sin. Perhaps even more so.” — Alan Bradley 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 Care Copy Share Image
“While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.' In… — Alan Bradley Family 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
“Once, when I remarked that she looked like a disoriented bandicoot, she leapt up from the piano bench and beat me within… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I realized with an unexpected shock that without either ale or female within easy reach, Ned was somehow incomplete. Why hadn't I… — Alan Bradley Dr watson Copy Share Image
“I waved my hand like a frantic dust mop fingers spread ludicrously wide apart as if to say “What jolly fun ”… — Alan Bradley 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 Dr johnson 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
“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
“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“If God meant for pictures to be sent through the air He’d have never would have given us cinema. Or the national… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Shortly after his launch into eternity, Bonepenney's room at the inn is rifled by a maiden fair whose name I dare not… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old “O” rejuvenates every cell… — Alan Bradley Oxygen Copy Share Image
“Books are like oxygen to a deep-sea diver," she had once said. "Take them away and you might as well begin counting… — Alan Bradley Books Copy Share Image
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death.… — Alan Bradley Death 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
“Good morning, Flavia," she said at last, but her acknowledgment of my presence came too late for my liking.” — 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 had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped… — Alan Bradley Breathing Copy Share Image
“I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the… — Alan Bradley 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
“If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be--Porcelain… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused… — Alan Bradley 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
“. . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry. I glowed with… — Alan Bradley Bond Copy Share Image
“Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against… — Alan Bradley Parenting Copy Share Image
“To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with… — Alan Bradley 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 Copy Share Image
“I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar.… — Alan Bradley Chemistry Copy Share Image
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