Top 100 Gail Carriger Quotes
#1. His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.
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#2. He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. "Just a moment " he said. "I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.
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#3. Sidheag could be quite crass, the result of having been raised by men, or Scots, or soldiers, or werewolves, or all four.
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#4. A lady is never disreputable in public, unless intended for manipulation of sympathies.
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#5. Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.
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#6. Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.
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#8. Things were always funnier when one was lying down.
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#9. Lord Akeldama never did anything by halves, especially if he might double it at three times the expense.
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#10. Mrs. Loontwill's face, that of a pretty woman who had aged without realizing it, screwed itself up into a grimace Alexia supposed was meant to simulate motherly concern. Instead she looked like a Pekingese with digestive complaints.
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#11. Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.
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#12. Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the hideous thing for it's looks.
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#13. No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.
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#14. I'm Scottish," as if that would explain everything. The duke nodded, as if it did. "Yes, well, we can't all be from the right side of the country. Would
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#15. Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was no longer surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving home from finishing school in an airdinghy.
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#16. No, what's a man like down there?"
"Oh." Sidheag wrinkled her nose. "Unimpressive. They have - "she gestured towards her own nether regions with one hand - "a sort of dangly sausage - lacks tailoring."
"Really?"
"Yes, like it wasn't fitted into its casing properly. And hairy.
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#17. Ooo," said Alexia, fascinated, "it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence."
The earl laughed. "You must show me these books of yours.
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#18. That woman," Lord Maccon spat,"is is definitely alpha and most certainly female.
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#19. Oh, do shove off, Lady Bling. I was thinking some rather important thoughts before you interrupted me.
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#20. I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.
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#21. She'd had it painted, and planted, and primped, and festooned, and draped to within an inch of its very long life. But it was asking too much of the poor thing. The result was something akin to dressing a bulldog up like an opera dancer. Underneath the tulle, it was still a bowlegged bulldog.
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#22. The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect - engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. That's tea for you, thought Sophronia, the great social lubricant.
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#23. Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides ... , " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.
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#24. As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.
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#25. So, did you hold back during that test?"
"Maybe a little," Sophronia admitted.
Soap grinned. "That's my girl."
Sophronia glared at him. He was getting familiar.
"You are, miss." He continued to grin.
"I'm my own girl, thank you very much.
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#27. Soap understood her. Soap would always understand.
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#28. Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
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#29. Sometimes I can even pick up messages intended for other aethographors." He frowned a moment. "Story of my life, if you think about it.
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#30. Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat with a scrunched-up face. The cat gave her a disgusted look. Or seemed to; it was hard to tell with that face.
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#31. I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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#32. These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.
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#33. To be stupid was one thing; to be stupid and evil yielded up untidy consequences.
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#34. Too many things were going on in her head at once, and it was causing her eyes to leak.
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#35. He dinna act like an Alpha."
"He does in some areas.
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#36. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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#37. Rue was a romantic. Her parents were a love match. Had to be, for there was no other possible explanation for them tolerating one another. Thus Rue held the very peculiar opinion that love made for a most agreeable form of companionship.
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#38. Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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#39. Who suffers more, the gentleman in the badly tied cravat or those who must look upon him?
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#40. She ought to remember to stay on her guard, for it was when an illegal activity became easy that one was most at risk of exposure.
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#41. I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux)
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#42. As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
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#43. Running away was hardly a romantic pursuit. Except when one was running to Gretna Green.
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#44. Trust me, darling, it is never a good idea to have too many queens in one place, let alone one palace." "To
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#45. Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.
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#46. Footwear, after all, was a serious commitment.
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#47. Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?
Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.
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#48. Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
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#49. Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.
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#50. It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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#51. I have always been hers. Although she is taking her time accepting it." "I
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#52. Floote, what is going on? Do they think I
am contagious? Should I assure them I was
born with a nose this size?
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#53. Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.
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#55. Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
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#56. What's wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.
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#57. Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.
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#58. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
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#59. Most likely Pistons," said Pillover in a resigned tone of voice. "You told them about the ball. They like to go to events uninvited, put gin in the punch, and steal all the spoons. Stylish shenanigans like that."
"Charming," said Sophronia.
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#60. Ah, to be young and agile again,' said Primrose.
'We were never that young,' replied Rue.
'More to the point, we were never that agile,' said Prim with a soft smile.
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#61. The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.
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#62. Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.
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#63. You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone." The
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#64. He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.
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#65. Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.
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#66. Even children, Lady Linette said, must be allowed some time to conspire together.
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#67. Some of the most disagreeable people I know are the most ladylike.
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#68. Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
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#69. I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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#70. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.
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#71. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
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#72. Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age. Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot and wondered if anyone would miss her dear sister were she to be oh-so-gently tipped over the rail of the upper deck.
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#73. I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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#74. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled.
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#75. Not Alec Weebs? Never! Biffy was appreciatively shocked.
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#76. How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
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#77. Stupid little boys should learn to use guns and not wave them around.
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#79. He wore a tweed suit, of all horrible things, and a cravat tied with such carelessness it was almost as much a sin as his actions.
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#80. But Alexia's scent was something else, something ... not meat. She smelled warm and spicy sweet, like some old-fashioned Italian pastry his body could no longer process but whose taste he remembered and craved.
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#81. Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse
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#82. What have I done thins time? he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.
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#83. He figured someday he might win an argument with this extraordinary woman, but clearly today was not that day. Did
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#84. This is not a cut, Felix. I must go fix something."
"Why is it always your problem to fix, Ria?"
"Because I see that there is a problem when no one else does.
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#85. The mechanimal sat back on his haunches and sent a puff of smoke at her, tail wagging back and forth hopefully.
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#86. Rain, in your glorious presence, Miss Temminnick? I hardly think it should dare.
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#87. A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
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#88. What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation.
"Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.
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#89. Excellent. Ignorance is most undervalued in a student.
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#90. My petal.
Westminster's toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip.
A.
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#91. I am entirely capable."
"Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?
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#92. He wants to know why my marks aren't better. Why I don't speak fluent French. Why I can't kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.
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#93. Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub.
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#94. He could not stand Alexia Tarabotti, even if her lovely brown eyes twinkled when she laughed, and she smelled good, and she had a particularly splendid figure.
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#95. I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
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#96. Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an outfit consisting entirely of accessories, but Alexia maintained that proper conduct was never a bad thing.
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#98. If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them.
That's my girls.
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#99. If that Alpha wanted to dash off into the jungle with a mysterious goddess on her back on a whimsical evening run in the middle of a prospective battle, they would go with her.
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#100. Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding.
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