Flavia De Luce Quotes & Sayings

If stupidity were theoretical physics, then I would be Albert Einstein. — Alan Bradley

I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did. — Alan Bradley

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.
Flavia de Luce — Alan Bradley

Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. — Alan Bradley

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits. — Alan Bradley

Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine. — Alan Bradley

The wards were to my right. I stepped into the hall and walked confidently forward, yet fully expecting Matron to come bearing down upon me at any moment, like a pirate ship under full sail.
I must say, though, that I was not afraid. I would deal with her.
The new, stony Flavia de Luce would turn her away: send her scurrying with her tail between her legs.
The very idea delighted me. — Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death. — Alan Bradley

Sanctified cyanide
Super-quick arsenic
Higgledy-piggledy
Into the Soup.
Put out the mourning lamps
Call for coffin clamps
Teach them to trifle with
Flavia de Luce! — Alan Bradley

Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn't wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce - wouldn't He? — Alan Bradley