She investigated further: moving along with little kisses down his throat and over his collarbone until she came to the same location on his neck that on hers was currently a decorative black and blue color. She bit him. Hard. Alexia never did anything by halves.

— Gail Carriger

Romance

Gail Carriger Quotes

Sister Mattie could be rather fatalistic at times; it was why she was such a good poisoning instructor. Death, felt Sister Mattie, must come to everyone in the end. Sometimes it simply required a little help.

— Gail Carriger

I assure you, Lord Maccon, I am not the kind of girl to around hallucinating hedgehogs all willy-nilly. And I resent that you should think so.

— Gail Carriger

It was best to assume that a non-tea drinker might, at any moment, develop refinement.

— Gail Carriger

Independent thought,” emphasised Percy, “is independent thought. We cannot control the outcome. And if we try, we risk becoming the very thing we fear and are persuading him against. Evil.

— Gail Carriger

Cooked sausage, up and down, halfway between cat’s tail and cricket bat. With something to make it smooth, like oil or face cream.

— Gail Carriger

If she was lucky, the most strenuous endeavour she need undertake in any given day was the lifting of a teacup to her lips.

— Gail Carriger

If Primrose had learned anything from her unusual childhood in a vampire hive, it was this: do not give untapped wealth and social influence to a woman whose greatest love in life is increasingly outrageous hats.

— Gail Carriger

Footnote, his cat, also liked Spoo. Therefore Spoo must be a genuinely good egg. Or possibly eat a great deal of tuna. Footnote couldn’t be trusted to be entirely discriminating.

— Gail Carriger

The sun was near to rising. Percy downed the last of his drink and pondered the nature of love and manipulation and ghosts and souls, confident in his own superiority in needing none of these things to be content with his life.

— Gail Carriger

How many times has he taken revenge on a woman for the sins of a wife decades dead?

— Gail Carriger

She also relished the fact that something had died in order for her to dress properly.

— Gail Carriger

Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott’s biggest problem was that he met the love of his life when he was twelve years of age and then spent the rest of that life misplacing her. Or more to the point, she kept intentionally misplacing herself.

— Gail Carriger

Probably Phinkerlington.

— Gail Carriger

And Gavin never again forgot to shave of an evening.

— Gail Carriger

For x, as it turned out, equaled two.

— Gail Carriger

So it proved to be the case, for some time at least.

— Gail Carriger

He let the laugh puff out. “Neither. I hold back for love of waiting. Na so I might charge in later – dinna mistake my meaning. When you are ready to tell me what you wish, I will give it to you. Simple as that. Dinna fret – I work hard if you put me to the task, Lady Villentia.

— Gail Carriger

As Justice would have it, we should all be so lucky as to go wafting about dramatically in a trailing nightgown on occasion.

— Gail Carriger

What if I want him to throw me up against the wall and press against me with his whole body, as if he needed me to breathe?

— Gail Carriger

Her heart was doing crazy things, and she still could not locate her kneecaps. She took a deep breath and put some serious attention into tracking them down.

— Gail Carriger

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