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

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

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.

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Opportunities to climb to greater heights will surely come. But the question is, are you ready to seize them when they do?

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.

I want so much to believe in true love.

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.