307 Quotes by Alan Bradley

I was being resisted by millions of tiny crystals, I knew, but the strength of their chemical bonds was enormous. If all of us could be like snow, I thought, how happy we should be.

Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.

It is a well-known fact that the Black Death was brought into England by lawyers.

Books make the soul float.

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 be the same.There is that moment when you can still walk away, but if you do, you will never know what might have been.

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

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.