Top 100 Quotes About Steampunk
#1. Age, like wealth is but a mental abstraction, my boy"~ Herr Doktor Pavel
K.W. Jeter
#2. We do not need you. Do not come unless I call you." Ricard crawled out of bed and shut the door as the steam men moved down the hall. "Dumb things." Ricard - As Timeless As Stone
Maeve Alpin
#3. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher
#4. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.
Kate M. Colby
#5. There's beauty all around us if only we stop and search for it.
Maxwell Grantly
#6. Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.
Jaleigh Johnson
#7. I'm always homesick for the journey," I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, " ... no matter what it may hold.
S.C. Barrus
#8. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.
A.F. Stewart
#9. You'll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me!
A.F. Stewart
#10. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.
Gwynn White
#11. 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.
Gail Carriger
#12. Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!
George Mann
#13. Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
Charles Stross
#14. Are we immortal?" he paused in his exploration of her skin.
Mischief shone in her eyes. "Want me to shoot you and find out?
A.W. Exley
#15. Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.
Lita Burke
#16. I am tempted to incapacitate him with the hemlock and then castrate him."
Lena paled. "I don't think that would be very wise," she said. "And the only knife we own is what I use for the cooking. You're not using that."
"I was planning on using a spoon," Honoria replied.
Bec McMaster
#18. It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
Gail Carriger
#20. I have a heart-shaped hole. Like an empty bird's next, it rests among marigold-hued ruffles above the topmost hook of my corset.
The hole was not left by something removed, but for something anticipated.
Sharon Lynn Fisher
#21. You have a way of turning the established order on its head." Instantly regretting that, he forced his face to relax; Lynx must not see anger in his eyes.
Gwynn White
#22. This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He'd reminded her of an eagle, the Castellan of Amyth
Michelle Frost
#23. 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.
Gail Carriger
#24. She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.
Jaleigh Johnson
#25. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Jaleigh Johnson
#26. It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly treated. The warm fire, by which he sleeps even now, and the fattening dish will be his rewards to the end of his days.
K.W. Jeter
#27. He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.
Stefan Bachmann
#28. She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.
A.F. Stewart
#29. You put up this steel armor around yourself in the form of hostility and disinterest - whichever works to shield you best at the moment, but that's not who you are.
Pauline Creeden
#30. In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.
Derek Mears
#31. The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.
Gregory Funaro
#32. Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell's. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.
Mark Hodder
#33. Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.
Paul Di Filippo
#34. Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
Nick Harkaway
#35. 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.
Gail Carriger
#37. I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.
Maeve Alpin
#38. If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.
Chris D'Lacey
#39. A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
Bruce Sterling
#40. Junk?" Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn't about to let that pass.
Jaleigh Johnson
#41. Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ...
Tamara Rose Blodgett
#42. Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval.
Heather Massey
#44. I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.
G.D. Falksen
#45. Don't ever be deceived by the size or the lack of size of an object. Sometimes the smallest can be the mightiest of them all.
Maxwell Grantly
#46. Just roll me in fairy dust and call me a unicorn.
Lita Burke
#48. Great things await you. You have a lifetime of amazing dreams to fulfil and noble ambitions to achieve
Maxwell Grantly
#49. It's impossible to own a Norin, no matter how many cages you wrap around them. We will always follow our own star. The best you can do is to hope you've pinned your heart to the same constellation.
Gwynn White
#50. The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
Gail Carriger
#52. The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems capable of crushing all naysayers.
Paul Di Filippo
#53. The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
Paul Di Filippo
#54. Gavin tried not to stare at the lobster. He decided not to inquire further. Whatever Jack's reasoning, best to accept that crustaceans were necessary to his view of the world.
Gail Carriger
#55. Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits.
G.D. Falksen
#56. Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
Betsy Cornwell
#57. Never before had he seen a woman so angry - or so seductive. It rendered him speechless. He couldn't fight the compulsion to kiss her.
She punched him on the chin, snapping his head back.
Gwynn White
#58. Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see more clearly. Magical things are easier to see if your eyes are closed.
Maxwell Grantly
#60. She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage
Gail Dayton
#61. Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture - that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it.
Paul Di Filippo
#62. We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.
Nick Harkaway
#63. The idea of marrying Lukan made her skin crawl. He was a Chenayan. She, a Norin. He was her conqueror. She, his conquered. He had been born and raised to lord over her. She had been born and raised to hate him. They might as well have been different species.
Gwynn White
#64. Clockwork Vendetta is not steampunk; it is steamfun. I can't take myself so seriously as to write something truly punk in the true sense of the word.
Gabbo De La Parra
#65. When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.
Stephen Fry
#66. He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered.
Sharon Lynn Fisher
#67. Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.
Lita Burke
#68. For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.
Paul Di Filippo
#69. Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.
Jim Butcher
#70. Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up.
Meljean Brook
#71. Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.
Gail Dayton
#73. I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger
#74. Seriously man, what are you waiting for? Get in there - or I will. - Marek Montvene
J.C. Morrows
#75. Music can make you feel things that aren't yours - sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.
Michelle Frost
#76. Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way.
Chris Wooding
#77. Not another word, not another thought, not another sniffle. If you need to pass gas, I pray you'll clench your backside and keep walking until we are certainly alone.
S.C. Barrus
#78. Clocks are the enemies of time ... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night.
Tom Thumb
Lavie Tidhar
#79. Babbage's Three Laws of Difference Engines
First Law: A difference engine must have at least six cogs.
Second Law: A difference engine must be able to operate a loom.
Third law: A difference engine must be able to kill a man, should the mood so take it.
Gideon Defoe
#80. Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N.K. Jemisin
#81. What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?"
"Shit," the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.
"That wouldn't impress anyone at the patent office.
Lindsay Buroker
#82. This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.
Lavie Tidhar
#83. I have to believe it's right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
Betsy Cornwell
#84. Don't think that we know everything there is to know. There are secrets to be found and unknown facts to be discovered. Who knows what delights there are to be discovered beyond our current knowledge.
Maxwell Grantly
#85. I liked to tinker with things, like Father. Make things with my hands. I liked to be alone, but not to be lonely. You were my only friend. You and Dutch.
Sharon Lynn Fisher
#86. Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
Gail Carriger
#87. Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.
Jaleigh Johnson
#88. Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minutes earlier and announced that a crazed Ethiope was at the door, presumably to buy a watch.
K.W. Jeter
#89. It takes use to make knowledge worthwhile.
J.S. Morin
#90. Darling, you know how I like the sight of a stiff one.
RoChe Montoya
#91. You didn't have to come."
"Of course I did. What kind of a friend and mentor would I be if I went drinking without you?
Clay Griffith
#92. As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
Gail Carriger
#93. The landscape here was strange. It was some type of forest, with giant vines that grew into spirals, round and round, growing up fifty metres toward the sky. They were massive. Some were fifteen metres across, narrowing as they rose.
Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen
#94. A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for finely crafted furniture.
Kat Daughtry
#95. Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Mark Hodder
#96. There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.
S.C. Barrus
#97. The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of "Take to the Sky," but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.
Katherine McIntyre
#98. So this is how the merchant ship won't follow us," I mumbled, "They aren't insane enough to join the party.
Katherine McIntyre
#99. All right boys, let's sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!
Katherine McIntyre
#100. He turned away from me, the better to hide the exclamation of annoyance which he muttered under his breath; I caught only what seemed to be the syllable cog (perhaps a reference to my mechanical trade) and the word succour (a prayer for divine assistance?).
K.W. Jeter