The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley

Date: 2022-06-06
| patronymic
Chapter: Two


Date: 2022-06-06
| Ammon. Carb., Ammonium Carbonate, or, as I called it when we were
| alone together in the laboratory, Sal Volatile, or sometimes just
| plain Sal. I knew that the “ammon” part of its name came from
| ammonia, which was named on account of its being first discovered
| not far from the shrine of the god Ammon in ancient Egypt, where
| it was found in camel's urine
Chapter: Four


Date: 2022-06-06
| Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours
| a day, seven days a week.  No… eight days a week
Chapter: Five


Date: 2022-06-07
| slattern
Chapter: Seven


Date: 2022-06-07
| And in that instant I decided that I liked Mary, even if she didn't
| like me. Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating
| as a friend.
Chapter: Seven


Date: 2022-06-07
| As I extracted the blade, I thought how lucky it was that
| women—other than the occasional person like Miss Pickery at the
| library—don't need to shave. It was tough enough being a woman
| without having to lug all that tackle everywhere you went.
Chapter: Eight


Date: 2022-06-07
| It was one of those stupid things men say simply to get in the last
| word. There was nothing remotely funny about it
Chapter: Eight


Date: 2022-06-08
| the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera
Chapter: Nine


Date: 2022-06-08
| took a loaf of bread from the pantry and cut a thick slice. I
| buttered it, then slathered on a blanket of brown sugar. I folded
| the bread twice in half, each time pressing it down flat with the
| palm of my hand. I stuck it in the warming oven and left it there
| for as long as it took me to sing three verses of “If I Knew You
| Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake
Chapter: Nine


Date: 2022-06-11
| cogitate
Chapter: Twelve


Date: 2022-06-11
| It was glorious! I hadn't felt in such fine form since the day
| I first produced, by successive extraction and evaporation,
| a synthetic curare from the bog arum in the Vicar's lily pond.
| I put my feet up on the handlebars
Chapter: Twelve


Date: 2022-06-13
| teeth and laughter and false good-fellowship
Chapter: Seventeen


Date: 2022-06-13
| You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities
Chapter: Seventeen


Date: 2022-06-13
| I think it was at that moment, there in the shadowy hall at
| Greyminster, that I began to realize the full extent of Father's
| distant nature. Yesterday I had been all too ready to throw my
| arms around him and hug him to jelly, but now I understood that
| yesterday's cozy prison scene had not been a dialogue, but a
| troubled monologue. It had not been me, but Harriet to whom he was
| speaking. And, as with the dying Horace Bonepenny, I had been
Chapter: Eighteen


Date: 2022-06-13
| Beeton's Complete Etiquette for Ladies
Chapter: Nineteen


Date: 2022-06-13
| Long ago and far away
Chapter: Nineteen


Date: 2022-06-14
| The need for heroines is generally to be found in the sort of
| persons who live in cottages," she had said with a haughty sniff
Chapter: Twenty


Date: 2022-06-14
| Three little maids from school are we,Pert as a schoolgirl well
| can be,Filled to the brim with girlish glee,Three little maids from
| school!” I
Chapter: Twenty


Date: 2022-06-14
| Why do I make them? Because Alf fancies a nice custard pie now and
| again. Miss Harriet used to tell me, 'The de Luces are all lofty
| rhubarbs and prickly gooseberries, Mrs. M, whereas your Alf's a
| smooth, sweet custard man. I should like you to bake an occasional
| custard pie to remind us of our haughty ways, and when we turn up
| our noses at it, why, you must take it home to your Alf as a sweet
| apology.' And I don't mind sayin' I've taken home a goodly number
| of apologies these more than twenty years past
Chapter: Twenty


Date: 2022-06-14
| And then I fled. You couldn't see my bottom for dust
Chapter: Twenty


Date: 2022-06-14
| Let us deduce," he said, as quietly as if he had said let us pray
Chapter: Twenty-one


Date: 2022-06-14
| Cynara
Chapter: Twenty-one


Date: 2022-06-14
| The cost, you see, of housing a beating heart. One disposes of
| one's life one little square at a time. Not much of it left, is there
Chapter: Twenty-one


Date: 2022-06-14
| fakirs
Chapter: Twenty-two


Date: 2022-06-15
| Penrod, a book she had commandeered from the little shelf of
Chapter: Twenty-two


Date: 2022-06-16
| There had been several times in the past, at work in my chemical
| laboratory or lying in bed at night, when I unexpectedly caught
| myself thinking, “You are all alone with Flavia de Luce
Chapter: Twenty-four