Quotes by Gail Carriger

“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.”

“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 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 M...”

“Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.”

“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 I...”

“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”

“Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?""It is the stuff of living, my lady.”

“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 so...”

“I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.”

“Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.”

“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”

“For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.”

“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”

“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!”

“What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of...”

“And vampires were perverted. Or so she hoped”

“One could not blame a people for disliking vampires. Vampires were like brussels sprouts - not for everyone and impossible to improve upon with sauce.”