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The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) QUOTES

The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) QUOTES

1 " I'm sorry I said it twice," Undine said. "I sometimes suffer from an excess of zeal. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

2 " You can sometimes camouflage the hand, but you cannot camouflage the man behind it. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

3 " It would not be out of order to remark here that a chemist's work is never done. Those choosing it asa profession ought to know at the outset that most of their lives will be spent washing up. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

4 " As we stepped forth side by side into the darkness, toward the waiting car, I thought of what a strange world it was, where life was lived pressed so tightly cheek to cheek with death: with so little space between, that they might well be one and the same thing.

But in the end, when you stop to think about it, we are, after all, no more than mere particles of dust, drifting alone together through eternity, and so it is pleasant to think that we have—in this way or that, for better or for worse—reached out and touched one another.

That, in the end, is what chemistry is all about, isn't it? "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

5 " Memories, I was coming to realize, can be sharper than daggers. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

6 " A church is a wonderful place for a wedding, surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made—and broken—at the altar. Dead now, every last one of them, including the man who invented the rule about not putting your elbows on the dinner table. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

7 " Alone in my room, I pondered the evidence. A perfect phrase. I would jot it down for future use.

Like it or not, there are times when you need to be alone; times when you need to be lonely; times when you need to need other people. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

8 " Humility is a most excellent barometer," he said, "and ought to be looked for in all those we are made to look up to. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

9 " We who lose parents are one, I thought. We all of us are as brothers and sisters of a single blood. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

10 " Sometimes, when Fate deals you into a game you weren't expecting, you can only play your cards to the best of your ability. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

11 " Like it or not, there are times when you need to be alone; times when you need to be lonely; times when you need to need other people. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

12 " It is the hallmark of the beast in us,” Dogger continued, “which requires a modicum of truth in our transgressions, no matter how finely distilled; no matter how thinly diluted. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

13 " On listening to Gute Nacht Aus Schuberts Winterreise

Great music has much the same effect upon humans as cyanide, I managed to think: It paralyzes the respiratory system. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

14 " His was a kind of gentleness which, I think, cannot be learned and cannot be taught. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

15 " I found myself wondering if, by whistling about whistling while you work while you were actually working, you would cause some odd bit of the universe, in some unknown dimension, to fold in upon itself—rather like a Klein bottle, which has no inside or outside—causing you to disappear up your own posterior in a cloud of probably invisible orange smoke. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

16 " O, how I wanted to hug him! O, how I wanted to pour our my affection! But there are times, I was learning, when one must not, on any account, give in to impulse. It was, I suppose, what they mean by the whole idea of "being British": holding oneself in check for the greater good; substituting the encouraging word for the crushing embrace. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

17 " It's astonishing what the human heart will do to make allegiances. Loneliness is a kind of glue that can bind us to the most unlikely strangers. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

18 " It’s all so complicated,” she said again. “All so infernally complicated.” “It’s about money, isn’t it?” I asked. This was no great leap of deduction. All great problems, when whittled down to their root, were about money. No matter how tangled they seemed on the surface, the bottom was always banknotes. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

19 " I called Miss Daphne, but she says she doesn't want 'er tea. She's got 'er nose stuck in a book. Useless, I think it's called, by some woman named Joyce. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)

20 " Even the most foul of us likes to believe we have a saving grace. "

― Alan Bradley , The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)