To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
ALAN BRADLEYI dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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