307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

None of the books were in alphabetical order, which made it necessary to cock my head sideways to read each one of the spines. By the end of the third shelf I began to realize why librarians were sometimes able to achieve such pinnacle levels of crankiness: It’s because they’re in agony.

Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn’t wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce – wouldn’t He?

There are choices in life which you are aware, even as you make them, cannot be undone; choices after which, once made, things will never the the same.

Love is love, wherever you may find it – even when it’s covered in feathers.

I had learned that a lie wrapped in detail, like a horse pill in an apple, went down with greater ease.

Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don’t you think?′ She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant to be gobbled down in solitary gluttony, and preferably in a locked room, but I didn’t dare say so.

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

Nobody ever simply dies.

I almost clasped my hands together. This amazing man was so noble he might have been born in armor and on horseback, ready-equipped with shield and lance.