Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEYIt is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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