"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" Quotes
"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley follows precocious 11-year-old detective Flavia de Luce as she uses her chemistry skills to solve a murder mystery in 1950s England.
mystery | 386 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?
You see, I’m a bit of an odd duck.
I had long ago discovered that when a word is said aloud, it loses its meaning.
There is something about pottering around a laboratory that is comforting. It is the feeling of having discovered a secret world.
Sometimes I hated them, and sometimes I loved them, but they were always there.
Pity is a form of abuse.
The art of deduction is precisely that, an art.
It’s amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one’s spirits.
I was me, and I was Flavia.
There’s something about a dead body that makes you forget all about being hungry.





