Gail Carriger Quotes

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• A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
• Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
• How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!
• Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken?
• 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…
• Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself…
• 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,…
• I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
• 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…
• The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
• Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,…
• He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a…
• He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must…
• Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing…
• Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
• Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well…
• Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux…
• How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
• They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.
• Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely…

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