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61 " 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. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #1)
62 " Her own reserves of bonhomie ran low after twenty minutes. "
63 " Spring was coming, and he began to catch himself looking at butter and cheese in shops and adding up in his head to see if they might outlive him. "
64 " She seemed to acknowledge that while numbers were a necessary part of life, they were, like French postcards, not suitable for a lady. "
65 " His ribs hurt with wanting "
66 " Women think making clockwork leads to an attic full of model trains." "It mainly does," Thaniel pointed out. "Actually mine is full of clockwork pears. Although I suppose that sticks to the broad principle. "
67 " It was much better to be able to think anything could happen, even if it couldn't. "
68 " One of the greatest evils of our time is for men and women to be educated beyond one's purpose in life." "Not malaria, then. "
69 " I’m afraid loyalty is a continuous phenomenon. You don’t score points for past action. "
70 " He came in slowly, like somebody else's cat. "
71 " The spare room was crooked, as though it had planned to be L-shaped but changed its mind at the last minute. "
72 " Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative. Bertha "
73 " There were vague prospects of becoming an assistant senior clerk at some point this year. He had been pleased about that when he heard, then horrified to be pleased, because being pleased with something so boring meant that without noticing, at no particular point that he could see, he had shrunk to fit the job. He had never meant to be a telegraphist for four years. "
74 " science can save a man’s life, but imagination makes it worth living. Take "
75 " An Italian, probably; Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative. "
76 " I can stay out of the way for an evening, then.""I'd like for you to meet her.""I wouldn't. "
77 " What kind of tea do you drink in the dark, anyway?" she said quietly. She hoped it would scare him, but it didn't. "
78 " Ito wondered how many generations of knights it took to produce one who came with a guarantee that even a Tokyo rickshawman could spot good breeding and get out of its way. "
79 " Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel’s never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. "
80 " The cab took them past other libraries and townhouses, then the redbrick walls of Keble College with their zigzag patterns, which looked ridiculous and spoke, Grace suspected, of the general unavailability of proper Cotswolds sandstone. "