I had once repeated the experiment to reassure myself that this was so, and it was. Ashes to ashes; starch to sugar. A little window into the Creation

Alan Bradley

Mots clés creation chemistry

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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Alan Bradley

Mots clés war death military

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You must have loved her awfully," I said, realizing even as I spoke that I made it sound as if Fenella were already dead. "Yes, sometimes very much," Porcelain said reflectively, "-and sometimes not at all." She must have seen my startled reaction. "Love's not some big river that flows on and on forever, and if you believe it is, you're a bloody fool. It can be dammed up until nothing's left but a trickle..." "Or stopped completely, I added.

Alan Bradley

Mots clés love

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The very best people are like that. They don't entangle you like flypaper.

Alan Bradley

Mots clés humor relationships

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My head was spinning. I could think of nothing better to calm it down than the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Good morning, Flavia," she said at last, but her acknowledgment of my presence came too late for my liking.

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Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–

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Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own, we took on something of their personality, like crystals in a snowflake. Perhaps we became something more, yet something lesser than ourselves.

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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.

Alan Bradley

Mots clés humor christmas holidays poison

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I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude is everything.

Alan Bradley

Mots clés humor explosives

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