“I'd always thought it was gaudy, but standing there watching him beside the gold and glass shrine, I realised that his was… — Natasha Pulley Faith Copy Share Image
“Being mad isn't an excuse for being vague. Can we at least have specific madness?” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants a house in Osaka,' he said, and it was strange to hear him switch suddenly to foreign pronunciation in the… — Natasha Pulley Birmingham Copy Share Image
“Tallis with no pedal, Handel with, even the horrible organ piece that had been written for someone with three hands. He had… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Art Copy Share Image
“I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening… — Natasha Pulley Buddhism Copy Share Image
“It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.” — Natasha Pulley Dialogue Copy Share Image
“People are like bees. They’re all workers who could be queens, with the right stuff, but once a queen-making has begun, it… — Natasha Pulley Right stuff Copy Share Image
“My uncle is a phrenologist and says that the shape of his skull is typical of a liar.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Why do you hate Indians? You know white people are are much worse, don't you? It isn't as though there's some kind… — Natasha Pulley Imperialism Copy Share Image
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Different languages Copy Share Image
“An Italian, probably; Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative.” — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Christ, Minna, it's yours until it makes an appearance in the world. Its yours in the same way your liver is; you… — Natasha Pulley Body-autonomy Copy Share Image
“When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with… — Natasha Pulley Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.” — Natasha Pulley Cultural Copy Share Image
“Six saw a caterpillar.' 'What kind?' 'Green, with purple and white zigzags.' 'I see,' Thaniel said slowly. Liking children did not keep… — Natasha Pulley Children Copy Share Image
“All I could think was that the border was a clever idea. It might as well have been Hadrian's Wall, but they… — Natasha Pulley Borders Copy Share Image
“What's gone before you, and what will come after,' I said instead. 'Beg pardon?' 'The past ahead. Time is like a river… — Natasha Pulley Time Copy Share Image
“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How… — Natasha Pulley Language Copy Share Image
“I'll give you a cake if you get him in the stream by the end of the afternoon,' Mori said to Six.… — Natasha Pulley Dialogue Copy Share Image
“Is it white wine? Red tastes like vinegar.' 'Of course it's white wine, I'm Japanese.” — Natasha Pulley Dialogue Copy Share Image
“The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety… — Natasha Pulley Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.” — Natasha Pulley Metaphor Copy Share Image
