The City Beyond the Sea Quotes

“Oh, and one more thing,' he added casually, pausing on the gangplank. 'The resistance has found out that the Reapers are planning to capture you, Max, at tonight's performance. They know about your disguise.'
'What?!' Max stared at Emil in horror.
'Yah, I know,' said Emil, shrugging. 'It is not so good.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“The wind was fresh, and the sky was blue and crossed with fresh white clouds like crisp pillowcases hung out to dry. Their boat was at the head of the three others they’d seen the night before, all of them as shabby as Daisy remembered, with peeling gold paint around their portholes. They looked like canal boats, except that they also had beautiful sails that snapped in the wind.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Despite the rain, Indigo looked, as always, like he’d been dipped in a vat of sunshine. His skin and eyes were the same gold-brown colour, like raw amber when you hold it up to the light. His brown curls sprang up in all directions, and he was wearing a pair of mud-spattered yellow overalls.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Max went everywhere and tried everything. He visited floating sweetshops where he bought tiny chocolate goldfish that wriggled as you ate them, and toffee shrimps curled snugly in caramel shells. He went to bakeries where he found braided sugar loaves in the shape of boats, and gingerbread pirate ships complete with sugar-drop cannonballs. He passed cake shops that sold ten different kinds of chocolate cake, along with tiny golden vanilla biscuits shaped like dolphins, and shiny opera cakes with layers and layers of almond sponge and coffee cream.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“dozens and dozens of memories: some good and some bad, but the greater part of them complicated, like most things in life.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Max emerged soaking wet, and blinking, and there was a crown of coral on his head. It was, Daisy thought, the most beautiful and wild object she’d ever seen – the colour of a sunset, sharp around its edges, and set with rough pearls that seemed to shift colour with the sea, from blue to green to white.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

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― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Her whole body tingled, like a bottle of sparkling water with the bubbles racing toward the top.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Life is a theatre, child. It is important to dress for the show.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild: The City Beyond the Sea

“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:       Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Daisy, you have something I'll never have. Sheer, raw courage - and the kind of magic that matches it. The kind of magic that's hard to tame. The kind of magic that can grow a whole forest.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea

“Vandals!' cried the Prof, shaking her fist at them. 'Hooligans. Ostrogoths.”
― Pari Thomson, The City Beyond the Sea