Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

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.

To kill someone it's not necessary to have weapons, your words and attitude can do the same job.

Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.