Gail Carriger Quotes - Page 5

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• A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

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  Men, Attacking, Handkerchiefs

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• "My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."

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  Father, Italian, Affliction

  "Soulless". Book by Gail Carriger, October 1, 2009.

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• Lord Maccon looked up. “Grovel, you say?” Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. “Grovel, my lord.

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  Vampire, Lord, Glances

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

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  Realizing, Lord

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• 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

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  Eye, Advantage, Caramel

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• Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?

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  Hands, Play, Mistress

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• Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.

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  Daughter, Mother, Gentleman

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• Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

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  Might, Causes, Spirit

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• ...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!

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  Military, Men, Military Man

  "Heartless". Book by Gail Carriger, June 28, 2011.

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• I like fish," chirruped Tunstell. "Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?" "Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.

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  Hands, Swim, Made

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• The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

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  Mass, Ill, Soulless

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• Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

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  Lord, Advantage, Shelves

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• He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets---even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.

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  Men, Months, Beast

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• They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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  Would Be, Dinner, Mummy

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• Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

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  Mean, Technology, Different

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

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  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

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  Covert

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• I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

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  Land, Gone, Novel

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• Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

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  Heart, Perfectly Good, Broken

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

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  Mother, Games, Ballroom

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• Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

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  Children, Drama, Topics

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• Lord Maccon asked meekly, shifting against her in a manner that ensured she realized the nibbling had affected his outsides just as much as her insides. Alexia was partly shocked, partly intrigued by the idea that as he was naked, she might actually get to see what he looked like. She had seen sketches of the nude male, of course, for purely technical purposes. She was given to wonder if werewolves were anatomically bigger in certain areas.

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  Ideas, Males, Naked

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• No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

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  Doubt, Lord

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.

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  Insulting, Moments, Inappropriate

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• As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.

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  Vampire, Drones, Mouths

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