All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
ALAN BRADLEYNot very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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