Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

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.

I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.

To succeed, you must believe. When you believe, you will succeed.

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.