And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
ALAN BRADLEYCompared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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