“Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.”

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”

“I realise that steam engines aren't everyone's cup of tea. But they're what made England great.”

“water is fearless, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot, water can flow drip, creap, or crash!”

“She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.”

“673. As demure as if Butter would not melt in his Mouth.”

“He was the toast to her butter.”

“Oh, when I was a little Ghost,
A merry time had we!
Each seated on his favourite post,
We chumped and chawed the buttered toast
They gave us for our tea.”

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

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“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I want.”