Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

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.

Holiness was always something richly dim.

Saving time = wasting time.

True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.