Steampunk Quotes
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.
But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.
Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.
Not another word, not another thought, not another sniffle. If you need to pass gas, I pray you'll clench your backside and keep walking until we are certainly alone.
There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.
we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome
We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
These violators responded only as cowards could. They ran.
she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.
Never before had he seen a woman so angry—or so seductive. It rendered him speechless. He couldn’t fight the compulsion to kiss her.She punched him on the chin, snapping his head back.
He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he wished to do. It was not my place to get in the way of so profound a destiny.
Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.
Gavin tried not to stare at the lobster. He decided not to inquire further. Whatever Jack's reasoning, best to accept that crustaceans were necessary to his view of the world.
Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us, ” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.
The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of “Take to the Sky, ” but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain.
It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.
Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.
And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.
Once more for Britain, � I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.
He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.
Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.
Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.
Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.
I do the same with my books...Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject.
The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.
In the void, there is no distinction of east and west."Gwen blinked slightly at that. "I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.
That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.
Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
Geoff’s arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British-Craphole.
I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...
…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.
We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills.
Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.
I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.
Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.