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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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"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.

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Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?

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lifesweetness

You see, I’m a bit of an odd duck.

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identityself-awareness

I had long ago discovered that when a word is said aloud, it loses its meaning.

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languageperception

There is something about pottering around a laboratory that is comforting. It is the feeling of having discovered a secret world.

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sciencediscovery

Sometimes I hated them, and sometimes I loved them, but they were always there.

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familyrelationships

Pity is a form of abuse.

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pityemotion

The art of deduction is precisely that, an art.

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deductionintelligence

It’s amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one’s spirits.

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mysterycrime

I was me, and I was Flavia.

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identityself

There’s something about a dead body that makes you forget all about being hungry.

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deathshock