“Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”
“It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.”
“Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.”
“You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.”
“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
“Ready, Rachel? I’d like your opinion on the lab that was broken into.” His eyes flicked past us to the closed nursery door before coming back to us, his smile fading as he noticed Ceri’s tension. I was such a coward. “You want me to look at a crime scene? That’s a switch,” I said”