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.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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.
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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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 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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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