You are unreliable, Flavia,' he said. 'Utterly unreliable.'
Of course I was! It was one of the things I loved most about myself.
...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
Alan BradleyTags: silence
This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.
Alan BradleyThe woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen her before in my life. Her face was as wrinkled as one of those forgotten apples you sometimes find in the pocket of last year's winter jacket.
Yes?" she said, peering over her spectacles. They teach them to do that at the Royal Academy of Library Science.
Tags: librarians
There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the ladder in its cage and found there was nowhere to go but down. But surely hamsters knew in their hamster hearts that escape was futile; it was only we humans who were incapable of accepting our own helplessness.
Alan BradleyTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
Alan BradleyI shot him a broad smile, a smile wide enough to present him with a good view of the wire braces that caged my teeth. Although they gave me the look of a dirigible with the skin off, Father always liked being reminded that he was getting his money's worth.
Alan BradleyIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
Alan BradleyTags: inspirational
Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie,
Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?
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: 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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