Gail Carriger Quotes

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It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

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Husband, School, Evil

Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.85, Hachette UK

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How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

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Thinking, Doors, People

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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

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Meaningful, Ivy, Profound

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One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

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Should, Scales

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Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken?

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Want, Chickens, Exploding

"Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School)". Book by Gail Carriger, February 5, 2013.

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What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

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Wife, Ill

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She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

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Want, Might, Possibility

Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.34, Hachette UK

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Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.

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Fashion, Passion, Names

Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.66, Hachette UK

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Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

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Character, Classic, Moments

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[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

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Lost

Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.27, Hachette UK

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Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

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Self, Extra Time, Trying

Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

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Done, Mama, Werewolf

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She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

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Dog, Mean, Games

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What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

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Fashion, Army, Islands

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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.

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Book, Differences, Needs

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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

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Nice, Kilts, Knees

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Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper. “ ‘Lady K says Agent Doom assisted depraved Plan of Action. May have all been his idea.’ Moving on to the last one, he read out, "Summer permits Scots to expose more knee than lady of refinement should have to withstand. Hairmuffs much admired. Yours etc., Puff Bonnet.

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Summer, Moving, Past

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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.

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House, Accessories, Moments

Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.29, Hachette UK

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I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

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Ladybugs

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Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

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Teacher, Grateful, Independent

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There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

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Doe, Polite, Dear

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She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

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Exclamation Marks, Purpose, Moved

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She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words. “You are an unfeeling”—poke —“traitorous”—poke—“mistrusting”—poke—“rude”—poke —“booby!” Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didn’t seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. “You put it very well, my love.

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Hands, Two, Rude

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Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

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Irreparable Harm, Causes, Harm

Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.102, Hachette UK

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Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

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Daughter, Husband, Six

Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.221, Hachette UK

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