66 Quotes by Natasha Pulley

He had thought it had all gone, but all he had done was lock himself up in a few little rooms and assume the rest of the house had fallen down.

Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.

Irony was a difficult thing to catch in a new language, and more so because not all languages had it, not even all local languages.

Under the gas lamps, mist pawed at the windows of the closed shops, which became steadily shabbier nearer home. It was such a smooth ruination that he could have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step, all still as a museum.

She felt suddenly as though she had thrown a stone, badly aimed, but still a stone, at a navy sniper.

People shouldn’t be throwing away their history when it’s still doing archery practice forty miles up the road.

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 you are to me, I don’t.

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.

My uncle is a phrenologist and says that the shape of his skull is typical of a liar.