It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYChildren 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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 had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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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 most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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 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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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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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