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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) QUOTES

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) QUOTES

1 " If stupidity were theoretical physics, then I would be Albert Einstein. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

2 " One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

3 " What are we going to do, Dogger?'
It seemed a reasonable question. After all he had been through, surely Dogger knew something of hopeless situations.
'We shall wait upon tomorrow,' he said.
'But--what if tomorrow is worse than today?'
'Then we shall wait upon the day after tomorrow.'
'And so forth?' I asked.
'And so forth,' Dogger said. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

4 " Feely had the knack of being able to screw one side of her face into a witchlike horror while keeping the other as sweet and demure as any maiden from Tennyson. It was perhaps, the one thing I envied her. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

5 " We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who at least don’t have to worry about when to sit and when to stand, or when to permit a pale smile and when to glance tragically away. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

6 " I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored this observation away for later use; it was a jolly good thing to know for anyone practicing the art of detection. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

7 " Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is trying desperately to claw its way back to normal: to pull a funny face, to leap out like a jack-in-the-box, to say "Smile, damn you, smile! "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

8 " One of the things I love about myself is my ability to remain open to suggestion. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

9 " Was he being what Daffy called “ironical”? She had once told me that the word meant the use of veiled sarcasm: the dagger under the silk. “The smiler with the knife!” she had hissed in a horrible voice. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

10 " In the old legends, anyone who willingly took up the Earth upon their shoulders was doomed to carry it forever: a curse, it seemed, with no way out. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

11 " …it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

12 " Foolishness in a grown man, no matter how lighthearted, is disgusting. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

13 " Kill him." Dr. Kissing repeated my words in a flat, matter-of-fact voice. "Just so. But 'kill,' as you will have observed, like 'spy' and 'stop,' is really just one more of those short but exceedingly troublesome words. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

14 " I don't care' is the last bit of baggage to be tossed overboard in a losing argument. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

15 " I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel." At least the man had the sense to admit it. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

16 " To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with our blood on the outside. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

17 " Life’s like that, too,” Aunt Felicity continued. “Too much push, and bang through the bottom one goes. Still, if one doesn’t paddle, one doesn’t get anywhere. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

18 " the freedom of it all—the sense of having left one’s body, but not one’s mind, behind. Unless you happened to be a bird, the body was of little use up here: You could not run or jump as you did on the ground, but only observe. In a strange way, being an aviator was like being a departed soul: You could look down upon the Earth without actually being present, see all without being seen. It was easy enough to see why God, having called the dry land “Earth” and the gathering together of the waters “the Seas,” saw that it was good. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

19 " What are we going to do, Dogger?” It seemed a reasonable question. After all he had been through, surely Dogger knew something of hopeless situations. “We shall wait upon tomorrow,” he said. “But—what if tomorrow is worse than today?” “Then we shall wait upon the day after tomorrow.” “And so forth?” I asked. “And so forth,” Dogger said. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

20 " It’s things like this that really shake me: sudden terrifying glimpses into the world of being an adult, and they are sometimes things that I am not sure I really want to know. "

― Alan Bradley , The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)