“The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night – a reverse waterfall – like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.” Joe Dunthorne Submarine
“The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night – a reverse waterfall – like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.” Joe Dunthorne Submarine
“Tea was the great arbiter of many things, and for Pastaddams, his morning cup meant the difference between expressing rational thought and succumbing to the ineptitude that occupied recesses of his dormant mind. Merely having the cup in his hand facilitated the flow of ideas, and upon tea, the great nourishment of the tailor’s life,…
Tea is tea, nothing can compete my tea. Irfa Adam
“ A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.” Lailah Gifty Akita
“Oh, the English! They are always thinking of tea. They carry it by the kilogram, and they are so clumsy that they always pack it at the top.” E.M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread
“I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I want…
“There should be medals struck for men who produce tea at exactly the moment it’s needed.” Jodi Taylor A Trail Through Time
“Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea.” Cynthia Hand My Lady Jane
“The cold seemed less relentless now. The small circle of white light from my bedside lamp and its hint of the dawn to come seemed to drive the worst of the chill away and the hot tea did the rest, as I lay and read further into the life of the young woman in the…
“There’s a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty’s Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes – or so the Vicar had remarked to Father.” Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of…