Inspirational quotes by Gail Carriger.
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?"Floote raised a tentative hand."Ah, yes, thank you, Floote.""There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize."I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband.""I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you."Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.
Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from some inner, tasty citrus quality. It made Alexia wonder fancifully if cities could have souls.
Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.
Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.
We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.
The Rakshasa," said Percy pedantically, "are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as tax collectors is an attempts by the crown to integrate them in a more progressive and mundane manner."Rue said, "Oh, how logical. Because we all know ordaining someone as a tax collector is the surest way to get them accepted by society.
Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?""It is the stuff of living, my lady.
Trust is a lot to ask of someone.
Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?
...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.
I like fish," chirruped Tunstell."Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?""Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.
Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.
The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane.
He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.
Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.
Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.
For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.
Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.
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