Follow that porcupine!

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.

I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.

Seek protection from the supreme-being.

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Actions are more precious than words

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.