I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

No one ever explained the octopuses.

I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

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 it through the day.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

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 more of an attractive prospect.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

Life is unexchangeable grace.

Time is the cruelest force of all.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.