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

by Alan Bradley

Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.

Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.

dyspeptically

“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage;

And, as it so often does when you’re in a jam, the answer came at once.

“Long ago and far away,”

NOT TO BE TOO DRAMATIC ABOUT IT, THAT NIGHT I slept the sleep of the damned.

O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!