She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

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.

Is being responsible a form of love too?

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.