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21 " Thaniel didn't have the energy to point out that there were some guns you had to stick to, if you still wanted to be you. "
― Natasha Pulley , The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, #3)
22 " For once he hadn't woken feeling like he was arranged around second-hand bones. "
23 " But he was exactly the same person, one who had just been allowed to put down a very heavy pack. "
24 " he felt hollowed out with missing him. "
25 " He didn't believe in death gods, so he went and introduced himself. "
26 " It was just that poverty was as much a state of mind as a fiscal reality. "
27 " Really it had been a healthy experience, because 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. "
28 " ... it was just as dangerous to teach a little girl that one foot wrong would mean a lunatic and a dungeon. It made it sound inevitable, whereas if you were brought up save in the knowledge that people were supposed to be good, you approached the bad ones with a healthy fury that might just see you out of the dungeon. "
29 " 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. "
30 " 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. "
31 " 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. "
32 " 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. "
33 " If he sat still and let himself think, he could feel all the snapped filaments and cracked places. "
34 " There was something lovely about a wild animal that came to see you to borrow your jumper. "
35 " 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. "
36 " He was starting to find he could live without all sorts of things - Mori, a piano, working lungs - as long as there was a decent supply of coffee. "
37 " The second law of thermodynamics suggests it probably isn't ghosts." She studied her on buttons, looking like a baby. "Have you explained to them about that? "
38 " Calm,’ she said over him, full of patience, ‘the fuck down, and have your bloody tea like a normal person. "
39 " Pringle, it's a tie, not atomic theory. "
40 " There was something uniquely horrible about being told a thing about yourself you didn't know. "