Teal is an unfriendly color

“As the ambience, sky and water alike, gradually turned a single shade of teal, Bobby slumped low in his patio chair, his battered boots propped on the ice chest. He appeared lost in thought.
    Teal is an unfriendly color, and the air had an unfriendly feel.”

—Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, 2000.