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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8) QUOTES

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8) QUOTES

1 " Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

2 " I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

3 " You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

4 " Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

5 " As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

6 " How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was exciting; it was exhilarating, it was invigorating; to say nothing of electrifying and above all, satisfying.
How could I tell the dear man that murder made me feel so gloriously alive? "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

7 " It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

8 " Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

9 " I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

10 " Giving someone the benefit of the doubt is not so simple as it sounds. What it means, in fact, is being charitable--which, as the vicar is fond of pointing out, is the most difficult of the graces to master. Faith and hope are a piece of cake but charity is a Pandora's box: the monster in the cistern which, when the lid is opened, comes swarming out to seize you by the throat. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

11 " True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

12 " I want to know who I am before it is too late—before I am no longer the same person—before I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are others when it seems to matter not a tinker's curse. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

13 " Her frustration, I knew, was not particularly with us, but with the fact that Father was in hospital and beyond her sphere of influence; beyond her need to advise and counsel. Pretended anger was Mrs. Mullet’s way of weeping. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

14 " She always said she'd prefer to die on her way to the moon than under a runaway bus. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

15 " I have always found there to be a certain sadness about mirrors, since they double the space in a house which needs to be filled with love. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

16 " Could there be shadier sides of life of which I was not yet aware? I didn't like to think that there were - but at the same time I didn't like to think that there weren't. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

17 " . . . and there was for a moment an unbreakable bond between us: the eternal bond of chemistry.
I glowed with all the fire of a newborn galaxy. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

18 " Have you ever wondered, Dogger," I asked, "if wickedness is a chemical state?"
"Indeed I have, Miss Flavia," he said. "I have sometimes thought of little else. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

19 " Mr. Sambridge possessed a remarkably good mouthful of natural teeth for someone his age, whether ritually maintained or expensively corrected I could not tell.

As someone who has spent hours of agony strapped down in Dr. Frankenstein's chamber of dental horrors in Farrington Street, I could only respect—and hate—anyone who still possessed such a spotless set of choppers. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)

20 " Her voice hung shrill in the air like a shot partridge. "

― Alan Bradley , Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)