Bad thing Quote by 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 gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her…

— Gail Carriger

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars…

— Gail Carriger

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

— 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

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

“Alexia seemed to recall hearing one matron complain that the Italians were very passionate in their support of balls.”

— 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

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

“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…

— Gail Carriger

Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how…

— Gail Carriger

“She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.”

— Edna Ferber