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161 " Yes. Six Steepleton. I don't like alliterating," Six said, casting a narrow look at Thaniel as if his last name were his own personal fault, "but not doing so would have caused terrible legal difficulties. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)
162 " He sat bent towards the glass, wondering how a caterpillar recognizes its friends once it was a moth, or if a you had to start again as a moth and reintroduce yourself. "
163 " Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?''How do you know what I'm using? A d it's the only Quechua dictionary.''It's probably shrine,'I said, and then when Clem frowned, not understanding, 'not idol.'Raphael nodded to me and I smiled, because he was taking it so gently. I would have burst out laughing if someone had translated Christchurch as Heathen God Temple in front of me. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Bedlam Stacks (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #2)
164 " There were a few advantages in having a resting expression that looked like you were about to kick someone. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Kingdoms
165 " I felt the way I did when I was about to dive into deep water. The last pause was to look for shadows that might be rocks. There were plenty that might have been, but nothing broke the surface and the more I looked the fewer there were. "
166 " Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said ‘do not walk on the grass’, one hopped. Anybody who didn’t had failed to understand what Oxford was. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
167 " but it was a Pyrrhic victory now it was here. "
168 " Symphonies had contours and angles, and where something sounded wrong, it was always because a movement or a phrase was sticking out in a funny way and you had to poke it back into shape. "
169 " He wasn’t going to throw himself in the Thames for the misery of it all, and God knew most of London was worse off. All the same, he had a feeling that life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week. "
170 " A man could have a character independent of his nation. "
171 " Lucky to see it,’ she said. ‘The forest must like Mr Markham. It’s very lucky for the quicksilver trees to cry at a funeral. "
172 " It was easy to talk about Mori like a force, something terrible. It was easy to forget he was just a person too, with light bones and a deer's shyness even around people he knew quite well. "
173 " We (women) are violent creatures, but ours is a rage much more accustomed to suppression than the flabby undisciplined version found in men. "
― Natasha Pulley
174 " If he sat still and let himself think, he could feel all the snapped filaments and cracked places. "
175 " There was something lovely about a wild animal that came to see you to borrow your jumper. "
176 " They were philosophers; they put two and two together and got a goldfish. As "
177 " How do you think he carries on? Knowing that the world is statistics and probability, or imagining what it would be like to see impossible things?’ ‘Statistics and probability are only methods of describing things, they don’t make them less interesting. "
178 " And he doesn't seem to know very much about Tesla," Six added. "But I'm not altogether certain that I can consider that to be a reflection of his moral fibre. "
179 " there were no feathers left, only a roasted carcass. He lifted it out of the water and tore off a leg. ‘It’s cooked, try it.’ ‘What . . . in God’s name was that?’ ‘It’s how they make glass eggs. They’re full of flammable chemicals and then when the time’s right . . .’ He opened his hand to mime an explosion. ‘But if you startle them they go off pretty well too.’ ‘They’re phoenixes. "
180 " It was a gamble to say anything; he had only just learned to dance and talk at the same time. "