It'll all end in tears and oil.

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.

Don't just discover . . . Encounter!

Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.

Without dreams ‘life’remains ‘life’..always: neither better nor worse.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.