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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions. — Alan Bradley

Death by family silver, I thought, before I could turn off that part of my mind. — Alan Bradley

I put a hand gently on her shoulder and held out my handkerchief. She looked at it skeptically. "It's all right," I said. "They're only grass stains. — Alan Bradley

There wasn't a schoolboy on the planet - or a man, for that matter - who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact. — Alan Bradley

Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him. — Alan Bradley

As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera. — Alan Bradley

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley

Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes. — Alan Bradley

Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. — Alan Bradley

I drew in a deep breath, sucking the sour tange into my lungs and savoring the chemical smell of decay. But this was no time for pleasant reflections. — Alan Bradley

Magic doesn't work when you're sad. — Alan Bradley

Duty is the best and wisest of all teachers. — Alan Bradley

Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase — Alan Bradley

One could always be helpful, I reminded myself, without spilling one's guts. — Alan Bradley

The more I dealt with adults, the less I wanted to be one. — Alan Bradley

Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words. — Alan Bradley

Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt. — Alan Bradley

She consumed books like a whale eats krill. — Alan Bradley

Translation: She was perishing with nosiness. — Alan Bradley

I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky. — Alan Bradley

And it was signed simply "George. — Alan Bradley

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own. — Alan Bradley

As I am now, so you must be, So Friend, prepare to follow me — Alan Bradley

Books make the soul float. — Alan Bradley

If you need me, I shall be weeping at the bottom of my wardrobe. — Alan Bradley

Sometimes I hated myself but not for long. — Alan Bradley

I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation — Alan Bradley

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be. — Alan Bradley

It was like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn't shake off. The bloody thing clung to life like a limpet. — Alan Bradley

I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built. — Alan Bradley

I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell "So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said — Alan Bradley

I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did. — Alan Bradley

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide. — Alan Bradley

Everyone else in the world is sorry. Dare to be something more than that. — Alan Bradley

You're one of them de Luce girls over from Buckshaw. I'd rec'nize them cold blue eyes anywhere. — Alan Bradley

As Uncle Tarquin de Luce once wrote in the margin of one of his many notebooks of chemical experiments: Consider also the container. — Alan Bradley

Oxidation, I never tire of reminding myself, is what happens when oxygen attacks. — Alan Bradley

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.
Flavia de Luce — Alan Bradley

Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography. — Alan Bradley

Revenge is my specialty. — Alan Bradley

Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine. — Alan Bradley

I wanted to shake the stuffing out of him; I wanted to hug him; I wanted to die. — Alan Bradley

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company. — Alan Bradley

I have learned that under certain circumstances, a fib is not only permissible, but can even be an act of perfect grace. — Alan Bradley

Any barrier, I had learned
even a potential one
was best breached by pretending urgency. — Alan Bradley

I threw my hands up into the air and launched myself into a series of exuberant triple cartwheels. "Yaroo!" I shouted. — Alan Bradley

Not yet evaluated. She has left it to me to — Alan Bradley

Good morning, Flavia, she said at last, but her acknowledgment of my presence came too late for my liking. — Alan Bradley

For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended. — Alan Bradley

The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is. — Alan Bradley

One of the things I love about myself is my ability to remain open to suggestion. — Alan Bradley

Love is love, wherever you may find it - even when it's covered in feathers. — Alan Bradley

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend. — Alan Bradley

I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own. — Alan Bradley

You can pray in the churchyard," the sergeant said. "The Lord has large ears. — Alan Bradley

it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. — Alan Bradley

If stupidity were theoretical physics, then I would be Albert Einstein. — Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel. — Alan Bradley

Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth. — Alan Bradley

True charity, I had discovered, consists in swallowing an invisible flaming sword. — Alan Bradley

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned. — Alan Bradley

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing? — Alan Bradley

Nobody ever simply dies. — Alan Bradley

Girl be blowed!" I snapped. "I'm here as a brain, not as a female. — Alan Bradley

This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass. — Alan Bradley

Even in complete silence, Buckshaw had its own unique silence; a silence I would recognize anywhere. — Alan Bradley

I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction. — Alan Bradley

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done. — Alan Bradley

Inspector Hewitt flicked on the defroster to evaporate the condensation our words were forming on the windscreen. — Alan Bradley

People who turn pages with licked fingers are as bad as those who wipe their noses on the able linen — Alan Bradley

Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What — Alan Bradley

The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper. — Alan Bradley

There's nothing that a liar hates more than finding out that another liar has lied to them. — Alan Bradley

I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. At least the man had the sense to admit it. — Alan Bradley

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. — Alan Bradley

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. — Alan Bradley

I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets. — Alan Bradley

Impertinent children ought to be given six coats of shellac and set up in public places as a warning to others. — Alan Bradley

It is no longer enough simply to solve crimes: We modern private detectives must also be able to come up with catchy names for our cases. — Alan Bradley

Spare us the pout, there's enough lip in the world without you adding to it. — Alan Bradley

Yaroo!" I shouted, and I didn't give a beetle's bottom who heard me. "Ya-rooo! — Alan Bradley

A peculiar feeling passed over me
or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain. — Alan Bradley

The exchange of a wife for a pair of gates( "The finest this side Paradise,") Brandwyn had written in his diary — Alan Bradley

The Hinley pond-poet Herbert Miles had referred to us as "that gaggle o' geese who gossip gaily 'pon the gladdening green," and there — Alan Bradley

Mrs. Mullet, when it came to gossip, was equaled only by the News of the World. — Alan Bradley

You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself. — Alan Bradley

It is always better, and far more rewarding, I have observed, to have someone else feel sorry for you, than to do the job yourself. — Alan Bradley

I have always found there to be a certain sadness about mirrors, since they double the space in a house which needs to be filled with love. — Alan Bradley

Keep quiet about a toothpick in today's butter and next thing you know you'll be findin' a doorknob in the cottage cheese. — Alan Bradley

You lie like one of us. — Alan Bradley

There are things that are worse than glass and crocodiles. — Alan Bradley

... because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world. — Alan Bradley

The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old "O" rejuvenates every cell in the body. — Alan Bradley

It was the chemistry that caused this lifting of the spirits. Chemistry lifted you up out of the mud and flung you up among the stars. Except, — Alan Bradley

Tea. It was not a perfect way to live one's life, — Alan Bradley

In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse, it seemed, with no way out. — Alan Bradley

one's innate desire for escape.' Everyone needs to escape, don't they? In one way or another, I mean. — Alan Bradley

Saint Paul on the road to Damascus might have pleaded sunstroke, for example, and the world would have been a different place. — Alan Bradley

No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing. — Alan Bradley

Silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities. — Alan Bradley