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101 " It was hard to communicate with somebody who spent every waking hour poring over the linguistic cleverness of men who had been dead for two thousand years. Matsumoto was bad enough, but classicists were honorary Catholics. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
102 " You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Kingdoms
103 " In bright light, with his hair turned that dark red and never having regained all the colour in his skin, he looked nationless. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Bedlam Stacks (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2)
104 " There was a cheer, and he took his first deep breath for months. He hadn't been aware of breathing shallowly. It had happened gradually; someone had put a penny on his chest every hour since November, and now the weight of thousands of pennies had lifted at once "
― Natasha Pulley
105 " He was from Glasgow. Everything past “good morning” was a bit of a blur. "
106 " contrary to the opinions of the Illustrated News, it was frowned upon for Her Majesty’s Government to employ the demonstrably insane. "
107 " My cousin should be careful of tying his shoelace is a melon field......anyone might think he was stealing "
108 " His thoughts were starting to take on a strange ring: they had shrunk from their usual size and now the ordinary attic that was his ordinary mind looked like a cathedral at night, with endless galleries and rafters lost in the dark and nothing but the echoes to show where they were. "
109 " Irony was a difficult thing to catch in a new language, and more so because not all languages had it, not even all local languages. "
110 " The part of himself he had amputated still twinged sometimes, but letting her go to a workhouse would have been worse than a twinge. "
111 " All the same, he had a feeling that life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week. "
112 " How in the world did you learn Japanese?" "Um, excruciatingly. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)
113 " He believed firmly in a soldier’s right to cry in public upon surviving the attentions of the surgeon, and a miner’s after being lifted from a shaft collapse. He wasn’t convinced in the least that anyone in an office at the HO had anything to cry about. He was also aware, though, that this was probably a very unfair thing to think. "
114 " The chamber dissolved in a row where all the colours of everyone's voices clashed and mixed into an indistinguishable brown cloud. Thaniel looked down at his own shorthand. It was a bad idea to take an exact transcript of a fight. It looked crass if it got into dispatches. You were supposed to summarize, softly. He thought about translating it as the fall of Japanese modernism, which was overdramatic, and wrote, 'the gentlemen continue to disagree. "
115 " The monk thought about it, said he wouldn't be able to say Nathaniel in a million years and would he mind awfully if he just called him Natsu. Thaniel didn't mind. It meant summer, and he liked the idea that the man thought he was summery. "
116 " His thoughts were starting to take on a strange ring: they had shrunk from their usual size and now the ordinary attic that was his ordinary mind looked like a cathedral at night, with endless galleries and rafters lost in the dark and nothing but the echoes to show where they were. He "
117 " Trust them to find a piano and decide that the best way to play it is with a sledgehammer. "
118 " Moths and dust make my mother ill. I think it would be in vain to arrest all of my movements in the hope of maintaining her in good health. "
119 " Does it really look like Japan?" Thaniel asked as they went by a shrine housing a painted figure that might have been a god, or something that ate gods. A little boy put a coin in its bowl and rang the bell inside.The watchmaker nodded. "Near enough. The weather is better in Japan, and it would be difficult to find English food. But I think they do draw the line here at brown tea."Thaniel could smell the bitterness of green tea now. "What's wrong with brown?""Don't be stupid. "
120 " You literally walked in front of a firing squad for us. We can take you to Tokyo. "