The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

by Alan Bradley

I knew instantly, too, that Father had just told a lie, and suddenly, without warning, somewhere inside me, a little thread broke. It felt as if I had just aged a little and something old had snapped.

There were times when Harriet was not gone; she was everywhere.

chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas. Still nothing.