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“Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.”

Description Simile Smiling Natasha Pulley Smile Lines

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.”

Metaphor Natasha Pulley

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.”

Humor Summer Seasons England Dialogue Weather Natasha Pulley

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“Nobody wants a house in Osaka,' he said, and it was strange to hear him switch suddenly to foreign pronunciation in the middle of his English. 'It would mean you had to live in Osaka.' 'What's wrong with it?' 'It's like . . . Birmingham.”

Humor Dialogue Comparison Birmingham Witty Banter Osaka Natasha Pulley

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“I'll give you a cake if you get him in the stream by the end of the afternoon,' Mori said to Six. 'Hold on,' Thaniel said. 'No making criminals of the orphans, Fagin.' 'But I want some cake,' Six frowned. 'And his name isn't Fagin.”

Humor Dialogue References Witty Banter Natasha Pulley Literary Allusion Fagin

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with Thaniel's never-read copy of Anna Karenina. The Russians, he said, knew how to write genuinely boring novels, and he would only stop being afraid when he was bored enough. They were all the more boring because he could remember reading the end in the recent future.”

Humor Reading Scared Boring Anna Karenina Natasha Pulley Russian Novels

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

“The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.”

Writing Humor Lowest Common Denominator Dumbing Down Natasha Pulley

Book:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Source: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street