Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

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.

A show of power is not the same as silent power.

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

Even suffering when wrapped in love, seems tolerable.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I'm a very spiritual person. And it affects my work greatly.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

We must not believe the Evil One when he tells us that there is nothing we can do in the face of violence, injustice and sin.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

On second thought she hoped she never met a woman that attractive.. If she did, she would be morally obligated to run her over with her car.." Bride