307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

If you’re insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes.

I reached out and touched his hands and they stilled at once. I had observed – although I did not often make use of the fact – that there were times when a touch could say things that words could not.

As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there’s no better way to mask a lie – or at least a glaring omission – than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.

A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don’t you think?

I must be honest about the fact that I’m made extremely uneasy by excessive noise, and that I do not care for shouted instructions. If I’d been meant to be a sheep, I reasoned, I’d have been born with wool instead of skin.

As I am now, so you must be, So Friend, prepare to follow me.

Although Fate loves coincidences, it does not chew its cabbage twice.

We who lose parents are one, I thought. We all of us are as brothers and sisters of a single blood.

It’s astonishing what the human heart will do to make allegiances. Loneliness is a kind of glue that can bind us to the most unlikely strangers.