The Weathermonger Quotes

“She left them before Bagwy Llydiart, in midsentence. Geoffery and Sally got the subject and verb, and the girl who opened the farm door to her got the object.”
― Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger

“When the weatherman spoke he did so in smooth, rolling clauses, full of long words such as schoolmasters use when they are teasing a favored pupil, but he told them very little about himself. His talk was like cotton candy, that huge sweet bauble that fills the eye but leaves little in your belly when you've eaten it.”
― Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger

“The ketch belonged to an angry millionaire, who hadn't been willing to lend it until he received a personal telephone call from the President of France. (His wife had put on her tiara to listen to the call on an extension.)”
― Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger

“The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.”
― Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger