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.
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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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