Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

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.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.

Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Right isn't always legal.

I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.