“ It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there. Natasha Pulley
“ Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour. Natasha Pulley
“ 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 creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence. Natasha Pulley
“ Six saw a caterpillar.''What kind?''Green, with purple and white zigzags.''I see,' Thaniel said slowly. Liking children did not keep him from being perplexed by them. He was recently too old to rememb… Natasha Pulley
“ I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening to some twerp in a dress drone on about the virtue of wedded life but, dear as… Natasha Pulley
“ Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.''No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't heavy. 'It's clever, it looks like busy Mozart.''What?''I . . .' Thaniel sighed. 'I… Natasha Pulley
“ What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I… Natasha Pulley
“ What's gone before you, and what will come after,' I said instead. 'Beg pardon?' 'The past ahead. Time is like a river and you float with the current. Your ancestors set off before you did, so they're… Natasha Pulley
“ I'd always thought it was gaudy, but standing there watching him beside the gold and glass shrine, I realised that his was a candlelight faith. It didn't work in the clear unforgiving light in London… Natasha Pulley
