01c. 1976 ADHow ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
02c. 1976 ADThe ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
03c. 1976 ADI think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
04c. 1976 ADI 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 theGail Carriger / quote ↗
05c. 1976 ADI 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
06c. 1976 ADHighland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
08c. 1976 ADThere 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
09c. 1976 ADJust because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
10c. 1976 ADAlexia 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
12c. 1976 ADThe 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
13c. 1976 ADOh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?""It is the stuff of living, my lady.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
15c. 1976 ADWhere were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?Gail Carriger / quote ↗
16c. 1976 AD...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!Gail Carriger / quote ↗
17c. 1976 ADBut 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
18c. 1976 ADI 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
19c. 1976 ADSophronia 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
20c. 1976 ADThe 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.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
21c. 1976 ADHe has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
22c. 1976 ADGreat, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
23c. 1976 ADFelicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.Gail Carriger / quote ↗
