Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

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.

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

My lips are kissing your heart every moment of our lives.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.