307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

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

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.

Even the most foul of us likes to believe we have a saving grace.

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

There are things that are worse than glass and crocodiles.

I was proud of my strategy. It was one I had been saving for just such an occasion as this. Who can say no to a personal matter? Even God is curious about such things, which is why He listens to our prayers.

So that was it. As at a birth, so at a death. Without so much as a kiss-me-quick-and-mind-the-marmalade, the only female in sight is enlisted to trot off and see that the water is boiled. Rustle something up, indeed! What did he take me for, some kind of cowboy?

History is like the kitchen sink,” Adam answered. “Everything goes round and round until eventually, sooner or later, most of it goes down the waste pipe. Things are forgotten. Things are mislaid. Things are covered up. Sometimes, it’s simply a matter of neglect.

One could always be helpful, I reminded myself, without spilling one’s guts.