Gail Carriger Quotes - Page 3

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• Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Mother, Gentleman

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• Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

  Gail Carriger

  Ideas, Males, Naked

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• No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

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  Doubt, Lord

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

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  Fighting, Important, Ruffles

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• The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

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  Home, Ideas, Long

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• Hello, princess,” said Lord Maccon to the vampire. “Got yourself into quite a pickle this time, didn't you?” Lord Akeldama looked him up and down. “My sweet young naked boy, you are hardly one to talk. Not that I mind, of course.

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  Sweet, Princess, Boys

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

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  Insulting, Moments, Inappropriate

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• Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

  Gail Carriger

  Children, Drama, Topics

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• Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

  Gail Carriger

  Mother, Games, Ballroom

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

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  Heart, Perfectly Good, Broken

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

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  Mass, Ill, Soulless

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• Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

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  Lord, Advantage, Shelves

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• He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets---even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.

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  Men, Months, Beast

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• They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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  Would Be, Dinner, Mummy

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• I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

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  May, Cad, Scottish

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• Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

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  Mean, Technology, Different

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

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  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

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  Land, Gone, Novel

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• His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

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  Eye, Peculiar, Eclairs

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• Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

  Gail Carriger

  Hands, Play, Mistress

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• Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

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  Cat, Vampire, Should

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• "My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."

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  Father, Italian, Affliction

  "Soulless". Book by Gail Carriger, October 1, 2009.

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• Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?

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  Hair, Long, Mustache

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• I am entirely capable." "Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?

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  Capable

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• You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

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  Covert

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