Delayed Quote by Gail Carriger

Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with…

— 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…

— Gail Carriger

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he…

— Gail Carriger

Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.

— Gail Carriger

“…whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a…

— George Eliot

Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the…

— Gail Carriger

Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves…

— Gail Carriger

These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

— Gail Carriger

“How ghastly for her,” said Alexia, driven beyond endurance into comment. “People actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty…

— Gail Carriger

“Alexia was not a particularly musical person, and her husband, a noted opera singer in his human days, had once described her bath time…

— Gail Carriger

“We realy must work on our communitcation. Perhaps if you were not so constantly intrested in other forms of intimacy, I might actually have…

— Gail Carriger

“We noticed the parallels in our marriages -the forceful and decided women in charge, our quiet husbands, gentler than we were, gentler than most…

— Susanna Sonnenberg