Next door Quote by Gail Carriger

“Alexia had, in part, compensated for a lack of soul through the liberal application of manners. This was rather like donning an outfit consisting…

— 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

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

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 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

“There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons, seemed to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.”

— steven redhead

“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light to scribble…

— Josephine Moon

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

— Gail Carriger

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer