The Grave's a Fine and Private Place Quotes

“Gorging on sweets together creates as strong a bond between two people as being in love.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“People who have been offended are entitled to a short sulk, as long as it doesn’t drag on too long.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“How could you know that?" he asked. "Are you a witch?"
"Yes, I am," I told him, enjoying the moment. "I practice a specialized kind of witchcraft called thinking. It's a very mysterious power. Quite unknown to the average person.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“The possibilities seemed endless, which made it all the more exciting, since possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties -- or so I've always thought.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Feminine intuition is no more than an acceptable excuse for female brains.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“To those of us who truly love one another, the occasional flaming fib serves only to strengthen the ties.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“The world was changing and I, whatever I was, was changing with it.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Most people probably never stop to think about why our burial places are so green. But if they ever did, their faces might turn the very shade of that graveyard grass, for underneath the picturesque moss and lichen, and beneath all those weathered stones, is a slowly simmering chemical stew, bubbling and burbling away in the dark earth as our ancestors and neighbors, with the help of a little chemistry, are returned to their Maker.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“The spell fior finding books,' she whispered, closing her eyes before pronouncing the incantation: 'Abracadabra, Alakazam, Angela Thirkell, and Omar Kayyam.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“There are, in fact, no halos in the Bible—just as there are no cats or accordions.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Poison and Passion, I have discovered, are as closely connected as Laurel and Hardy.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Although it might seem like a good idea at the time, meddling with corpses is difficult to explain in the cold light of day.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Do I enthuse too much? Very well, then, I enthuse too much.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Still, any quotation with the word embalmed in it can never be a bore.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“The vicar stared at him as blankly as if he were one of Einstein’s equations on a blackboard.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Whereupon I had been driven from the breakfast table in a hail of bath buns, which, considering that they had been baked by Mrs. Mullet, was a good deal more life-threatening than it sounds.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Feely and Dieter were still clutching both of each other’s hands, each gazing into the eyes of the other as if they were about to burst into song, like Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in Maytime or one of those boring but unsettling films featuring advanced wrestling holds.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Sunday morning services were like a steeplechase as we fanned pages in the next jump to get to the proper place.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place

“Feely’s nerves, fear, and anger seized reason by the throat and shook it dead.”
― Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place