I had learned by personal experience that grumblers are deaf to any voices but their own.
Alan BradleyI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
Alan BradleyExcuse me,' I said. 'I've just remembered something.' It was true. What I'd remembered was this: While I was not in the least afraid of the dead, there were those among the living who gave me the creeping hooly-goolies...
Alan BradleyTags: marion-trodd
…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.
Alan BradleyTags: childhood attitude attention invisibility noticeable
Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise.
Alan BradleyTags: expressions
Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave you at home."
I could see that she was disappointed, even though she managed to put on a brave face.
"I need you to stay here as a decoy," I whispered. "When they see you leaning against the greenhouse, they'll think I'm still in bed."
Gladys brightened considerably at the thought of a conspiracy. [...]
At the corner of the garden, I turned, and mouthed the words, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do," and Gladys signaled that she wouldn't.
I was off like a shot.
A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
Alan BradleyTags: life death death-and-dying
When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost.
Alan BradleyTags: youth
I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did.
Alan BradleyTags: love flavia-de-luce
Diamonds were nothing more than carbon, but carbon in a crystal lattice that made it the hardest known mineral in nature. That was the way we all were headed. I was sure of it. We were destined to be diamonds!
How exciting it was to think that, long after the world had ended, whatever was left of our bodies would be transformed into a dazzling blizzard of diamond dust, blowing out towards eternity in the red glow of a dying sun.
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