“That's a very murky position," objected Felix.
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“I simply feel that world domination is not my cup of tea. Is that shortsighted?”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Oh, Sophronia, thank goodness. Save me? Please? All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“If anyone saw Monique, a well-dressed woman of quality, dangling from the doorway, they apparently assumed everyone had difficulties in life and moved on.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect—engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. That’s tea for you, thought Sophronia, the great social lubricant.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Soap understood her. Soap would always understand.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“What she said was “I want a man who stays out of my way.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“As Dimity said, “Sidheag surely does grumpy old man very well for a sixteen-year-old girl.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat with a scrunched-up face. The cat gave her a disgusted look. Or seemed to; it was hard to tell with that face.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Felix looked as if he had been given some kind of caped weasel—part gift, part insult, part utter confusion. “Thank you, I think.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Espionage, Sophronia had learned, was tough on petticoats.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Saw your nicely strung-up slab of bacon.” “Don’t insult bacon,” said Sidheag.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“It was their vampire teacher’s custom of late to administer decidedly oddball lessons. Which is to say, more oddball than an ordinary lesson with a vampire in a floating dirigible espionage school.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect—engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. That’s tea for you, thought Sophronia, the great social lubricant”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Things were always funnier when one was lying down.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Felix ran his hands through his dark hair, sounding like a resigned maiden aunt. 'It'll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn't.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Funambulist.' said Sophronia Temminnick, quite suddenly.
'Sophronia, such language!' Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott reprimanded.
'Pardon?' said Agatha Woosmoss.
Sidheag Maccon, the final member of Sophronia's group, muttered, 'Bless you.'
'I wasn't sneezing, nor being indelicate, thank you all very much. I was thinking out loud.'
'As if thinking out loud weren't *decidedly* indelicate.' Dimity was not to be swayed out of disapproval when she felt it might exercise her creativity.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“It’ll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn’t.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Lady Linette has been teaching us seduction techniques.” She lowered her eyes and then looked off across the gray moor, presenting him with her profile, which was rather a nice one, or so Mademoiselle Geraldine told her.
That statement successfully shocked Felix. He swallowed a few times before saying, his voice almost as high as it had been a year ago, “Really?”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Then we are on the side of curiosity and evenhandedness. Once we know what's really going on, then we choose.'
'That's a very murky position,' objected Felix.
'So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“You think loyalty can be bought?” “Don’t you?”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Agatha, who was spending time in their room as her own was lonely, perked up. "I preferred the garrote myself."
The others looked at her, startled. Aside from the theater, and sleeping, Agatha rarely expressed an interest in anything. Let alone something espionage related.
"You do?" Dimity encouraged.
Agatha nodded. "You can wear it as jewelry, it hides away easily, and it's a nice clean death.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Whoa there, miss, that’s enough of that!”
“Oh dear me, are you hurt? Have I hurt you more?”
“I think most of me’s fine, miss. Just, please, leave off the touching.”
“I do apologize. I was only checking.”
“Whoa, now. Not that I didn’t like it, miss. You can check me much as you like, only later.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“I’m Scottish,” as if that would explain everything. The duke nodded, as if it did. “Yes, well, we can’t all be from the right side of the country. Would”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“in the end you’ll have to cede to Lord Mersey. He’s too much of a peer, you understand? And a bit of a prick as well.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“No wife ever cleared a man’s character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Apparently, gentlemen not only liked to kiss and touch women everywhere, they did that and more, on a regular basis, and mostly not with ladies at all, but with women of less genteel breeding. Some gentlemen, her brothers had whispered, even did it with each other. Although this was considered quite uncouth, Sophronia gathered, once one left Eton.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“Lady Linette stopped the looks and returned to instruction. “What were we discussing?”
“Um, touching,” said Preshea, in an unusually meek tone.
“Oh, yes. He may also wish to kiss there.”
“What, the décolletage?” Dimity squeaked.
“Quite often.”
Sophronia, thinking of her brothers’ lewd talk, asked, “And elsewhere?”
Lady Linette smiled. “Well, yes, the very best ones like to kiss all over.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
“With werewolves gone and fire stoked, Sidheav stopped shaking. The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect--engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. *That's tea for you*, thought Sophronia, *the great social lubricant.* Soon they had the whole story out of her. No wonder tea was considered a vital weapon of espionage.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Waistcoats & Weaponry
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“Much of what happens to us in life is due to chance and circumstances beyond our control. Being in the right place at the right time. Discovering that others have impacted us more than we know and for reasons that are not entirely clear. But hard work matters, too. There is an old saying: The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The High Druid's Blade
“أريد هيلين بعطرها و ثيابها، بالسرير و بالغروب. تمنيت لو أستطيع بسط نفسي عليها كلحاف و لو كانت لي آلاف الأيدي و آلاف الأفواه، تمنيت أن أصبح عدسة مقعرة كاملة أستطيع فيها أن أحسها أينما وجدت و من دون فراغات”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Night in Lisbon
“Saul was going to kill Anansi.
They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.”
― China Miéville, quote from King Rat
“Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, quote from My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
“But don't you worry," Dad says, after he spends a moment digesting this information, "that if you don't have children, there'll be one one to care for you in your old age?"
"No," I say. "Because I could have children, and they could turn out to hate me. The way I see it, I have friends who care about me now, so I'll probably have friends who'll care about me when I'm old, too. We'll take care of each other.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
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