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• A peculiar feeling passed over me–or, rather, through me, as if I were an umbrella remembering what it felt like to pop open in the rain.

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• I brought to mind the image of the stranger lying there in the first light of dawn: the slight growth of whiskers on his chin, strands of his red hair shifting gently on the faint stirrings of the morning breeze, the pallor, the extended legs, the quivering fingers, that last, sucking breath. And that word, blown into my face.

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• Horehound sticks are meant to be shared with friends, don’t you think?’ She was dead wrong about that: Horehound sticks were meant to be gobbled down in solitary gluttony, and preferably in a locked room, but I didn’t dare say so.

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• If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.

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• I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built.

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• Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.

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• Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring. Those boys who did not fail, yet did not excel, were left alone, free of the demands of the master who might wish to groom them for glory and of the school bully who might make them his scapegoat. That simple fact was the first great discovery of my life.

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• Now, even more than I had earlier when I’d first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to take a key from my pocket and open the cottage door, to sit down by the fireplace, to wrap my arms around myself, and to stay there forever and ever.

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• I felt a pang — a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness.

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• Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes–or so the Vicar had remarked to Father.

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• As he drank, I remembered that there’s a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty’s Government.

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• I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds, 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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• Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

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• I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life

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• Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.

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• Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

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• What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation – 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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• To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

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• Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?

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• People who talk about this phenomenon, most of whom know nothing whatsoever about it, call it “woman’s intuition.

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Alan Bradley (186)

Birth:	1938
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Writer

About

Alan Bradley is a Canadian mystery writer known for his Flavia de Luce series, which began with the acclaimed The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Bradley learned to read at an early age, partly because he was a sickly child who spent a lot of time in bed. Bradley had been interested in writing his entire life. However, he began to take it more seriously in his early 30s after moving to Saskatoon. There, he joined several writing groups and began spending time with local writers.

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