“Sanctified cyanideSuper-quick arsenicHiggledy-piggledyInto the Soup.Put out the mourning lampsCall for coffin clampsTeach them to trifle withFlavia de Luce!”

“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.”

“Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would a Larry de Luce have been more understanding? 'Hell, no!' I shouted into the wind...”

“Aunque olvides todo lo demás, acuérdate de esto: la inspiración que viene de fuera de uno mismo es igual que el calor en el horno. De él salen panecillos mediocres. Pero la inspiración que proviene de tu interior es como un volcán: puede cambiar el mundo.”

“When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me-- that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost.”

“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it. “I see ” the Inspector said and left it at that. Later I would have a quick piddle behind the caravan for insurance purposes. No one would be any the wiser.”

“Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them.”