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The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3) QUOTES

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3) QUOTES

1 " I don't tolerate you. I can't breathe when you're not here, I can't think, I can't write music properly, I spend my whole bloody life waiting for the post. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

2 " Isn't that what impoverished young artists usually do with old millionaires who fall in love with them? "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

3 " Chivalry—Kuroda, you know when women put vegetables on a spoon and zoom it round so their kids think it's a magic butterfly or something? Chivalry is just what your mum called being a decent human being so you'd feel like a really good boy when you were nice to people. Don't say it to grown-ups. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

4 " The truth was that he loved Mori so hopelessly he could have found a way to excuse cemeteries of dead wives. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

5 " It was the great evil of plays that every character had some kind of purpose. Absorb too much of them, and you could go about believing there was something wrong with you if you drifted unremarked towards your thirties, and coasted into a quiet beach of no interest to anyone. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

6 " I just hate Paris. I’m surprised more people don’t have some sort of allergic reaction.’
Thaniel decided to let it lie, whatever it was. ‘Only you could hate Paris.’
‘Thaniel, I grew up bowing to immediate family. Every random Frenchman thinks that the only proper way to say hello is indecent assault. I thoroughly hate Paris. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

7 " But he hadn't realized that grace is not a thing you performed, but a weight you carried. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

8 " She waited by the blackboard, trying to scrape up enough of her abysmal Japanese to ask what was going on. Lectures were always in English, which was just as well, because she had the linguistic capability of a sea cucumber. As far as she could tell, the word for ‘husband’ and the word for ‘prisoner’ were identical. Half the faculty were still worried that she’d got Baron Matsumoto locked away in her attic. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

9 " Thaniel wondered if real geisha painted themselves white so that it was harder to see how angry they must be all the time. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

10 " and that most international treaty problems would vanish overnight if everyone would just get over their snobbery long enough to sit down, have a cup of tea together, and recognise that they were all exactly the same person in slightly different hats. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

11 " If someone had said he was dreaming, he would have clapped them on the shoulder and said yes, of course. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

12 " There are things it's hard to think in English. There's not a word. You can think them but you can't explain properly and the thought just fogs away because you can't call it anything. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

13 " How in the world did you learn Japanese?" "Um, excruciatingly. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

14 " 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. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

15 " 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. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

16 " Trust them to find a piano and decide that the best way to play it is with a sledgehammer. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

17 " You literally walked in front of a firing squad for us. We can take you to Tokyo. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

18 " What you were saying about speaking. That's what music is for. Anyone can understand. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

19 " Shame shuts you down, doesn't it. "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)

20 " now he knew that if anyone said ‘it’s the principle of the thing’ then the correct response was to punch that person in the throat, "

― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)