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Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5) QUOTES

Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5) QUOTES

1 " Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

2 " I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

3 " She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

4 " I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

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

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

6 " Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

7 " He also grew a very large and scruffy beard, with which she was far less delighted.
"A man's virility is in his beard," he insisted.
To which Alexia replied, "And a woman's is in her décolletage. Yet you don't see me allowing mine to get out of control, now do you?"
"If wishes were balloons," was his only response. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

8 " Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

9 " Alexia was not a particularly musical person, and her husband, a noted opera singer in his human days, had once described her bath time warbling as those of a deranged badger. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

10 " He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

11 " Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

12 " My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something! "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

13 " Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen."
"Volunteering for the position?"
"Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?"
"Only for you."
"Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

14 " He dinna act like an Alpha."

"He does in some areas. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

15 " Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

16 " Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

17 " Well, do be careful, my love. Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

18 " Why, Mr. Biffy, you talk such scandal."
"You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

19 " Not Alec Weebs? Never!” Biffy was appreciatively shocked. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)

20 " Biffy was tolerably more disturbed by the fact that he had developed a cowlick while sleeping that would to lie flat no matter what he did. "

― Gail Carriger , Timeless (Parasol Protectorate, #5)