Jack Rogers

“Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring. Those boys who did not fail, yet did not excel, were left alone, free of the demands of the master who might wish to groom them for glory and of the school bully who might make them his scapegoat. That simple fact was the first great discovery of my life.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“If you’re insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie