Gail Carriger

Writer

1976-05-04

Quotes by Gail Carriger

• Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?It is the stuff of living, my lady.

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• The Rakshasa, said Percy pedantically, are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as tax collectors is an attempts by the crown to integrate them in a more progressive and mundane manner.Rue said, Oh, how logical. Because we all know ordaining someone as a tax collector is the surest way to get them accepted by society.

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• We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

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• 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.

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• Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.

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• There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from some inner, tasty citrus quality. It made Alexia wonder fancifully if cities could have souls.

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• And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

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• Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

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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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• 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

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• I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

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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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• How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

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• How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

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• And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

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• I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

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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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• The Rakshasa, said Percy pedantically, are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as tax collectors is an attempts by the crown to integrate them in a more progressive and mundane manner.Rue said, Oh, how logical. Because we all know ordaining someone as a tax collector is the surest way to get them accepted by society.

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• Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?It is the stuff of living, my lady.

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• 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.

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