"Why did you want to go and distract……" — Gail Carriger
"Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission."
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170 Quotes by Gail Carriger
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