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Gail Carriger
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Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
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California
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You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason? I was hungry, allowances should be made.
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But we were talking about me and my problems. Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.
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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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His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.
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Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama
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Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?
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One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.
Gail Carriger
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
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Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.
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Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?
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He dinna act like an Alpha. He does in some areas.
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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.
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Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.
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She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
Gail Carriger
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
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Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.
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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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Alexia blinked stupidly at the Beta from around the earl’s upper arm. 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.
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Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
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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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