“The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.”
“[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.”
“But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind."Adrian”
“and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage”
“A murder trial is not a Sunday-afternoon tea party.”
“Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war. ”