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Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5) QUOTES

Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5) QUOTES

1 " Books make the soul float. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

2 " I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

3 " The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.

Flavia de Luce "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

4 " I had found by experience that putting things down on paper helped to clear the mind in precisely the same way, as Mrs. Mullet had taught me, that an eggshell clarifies the consommé or the coffee, which, of course, is a simple matter of chemistry. The albumin contained in the eggshell has the property of collecting and binding the rubbish that floats in the dark liquid, which can then be removed and discarded in a single reeking clot: a perfect description of the writing process. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

5 " There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

6 " No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

7 " I wanted to cry.

I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

8 " I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

9 " There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons. . . "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

10 " Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

11 " IT WAS ONE OF those glorious days in March when the air was so fresh that you worshipped every whiff of it; that each breath of the intoxicating stuff created such new universes in your lungs and brain you were certain you were about to explode with sheer joy; one of those blustery days of scudding clouds and piddling showers and gum boots and wind-blown brollies that made you know you were truly alive. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

12 " I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a single syllable. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

13 " As was your mother, you have been given the fatal gift of genius. Because of it, your life will not be an easy one - nor must you expect it to be. You must remember always that great gifts come at great cost. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

14 " Ordinarily, anyone who made such a remark to my face would go to the top of my short list for strychnine. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

15 " The word “actually,” like its cousin “frankly,” should, by itself, be a tip-off to most people that what is to follow is a blatant lie— but it isn’t. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

16 " Why do people always quote hamlet when they want to seem clever? "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

17 " Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. The reason for this, of course, is that while you're gleefully anticipating the event, the victim has plenty of time to worry about when, where, and how you're going to strike. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

18 " Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant? "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

19 " We Three Kings of Leicester Square,
Selling ladies’ underwear,
So fantastic, no elastic,
Only tuppence a pair. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)

20 " History is like the kitchen sink,” Adam answered. “Everything goes round and round until eventually, sooner or later, most of it goes down the waste pipe. Things are forgotten. Things are mislaid. Things are covered up. Sometimes, it’s simply a matter of neglect. "

― Alan Bradley , Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)