Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
12 quotes
"We like the shadows. That's where all the power is."
"Trust is a lot to ask of someone."
"Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway."
"For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action."
"We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple."
"He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense."
"Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess."
"It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten."
"It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job."
"After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess."
"Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose."
"I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?"