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Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2) QUOTES

Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2) QUOTES

1 " Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

2 " Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

3 " Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico cat. The cat clearly believed Madame Lefoux was there to provide chin scratches. Madame Lefoux provided. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

4 " Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the aether, twirling the deadly parasol about her head.

"I have just remembered something," Alexia said when he returned to her side.

"Oh, that explains everything. How foolish of me to think you could walk and remember at the same time. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

5 " Werewolf change was never pleasant. That was one of the reasons pack members still referred to it as a curse, despite the fact that, in the modern age of enlightenment and free will, clavigers chose metamorphosis. The change comprised a good deal of biological rearranging. This, like rearranging one's parlor furniture for a party, involved a transition from tidy to very messy to tidy once more. And, as with any redecoration, there was a moment in the middle where it seemed impossible that everything could possibly go back together harmoniously. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

6 " I love him so very much. As Romeo did Jugurtha, as Pyramid did Thirsty, as-"
"Oh, please, no need to elaborate further," interjected Alexia, wincing.
"But what would my family SAY to such a union?"
"They would say that yours hats had leaked into your head," muttered Alexia, unheard under her breath. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

7 " Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

8 " Ivy waved the 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. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

9 " She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

10 " Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do? "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

11 " 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. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

12 " Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.”
“I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,” explained Alexia.
“These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

13 " Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

14 " What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

15 " She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.
Alexia liked her immediately. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

16 " 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. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

17 " Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn?
Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

18 " Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation? "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

19 " He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)

20 " As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French. "

― Gail Carriger , Changeless (Parasol Protectorate, #2)