307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

It was as black in the closet as old blood.

Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were - but at the same time I didn't like to think that there weren't.

I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything.

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

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

The possibilities seemed endless, which made it all the more exciting, since possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties -- or so I've always thought.

There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.

You can sometimes camouflage the hand, but you cannot camouflage the man behind it.

But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.