Gail Carriger quote: "The sign above the door to the Hypocras Club read PROTEGO RES PUBLICA, engraved into white Italian marble. Miss Alexia Tarabotti, gagged, trussed, bound, and carried by two men—one holding her shoulders, the other her feet—read the words upside down. She had a screaming headache, and it took her a moment to translate the phrase through the nauseating aftereffects of chloroform exposure.<br /><br />Finally she deduced its meaning: to protect the commonwealth.<br /><br />Huh, she thought. / do not buy it. I definitely do not feel protected."

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must ...
GAIL CARRIGER

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Paras...
GAIL CARRIGER

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores...
GAIL CARRIGER

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunc...
GAIL CARRIGER

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.
GAIL CARRIGER

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
GAIL CARRIGER

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER

To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I l...
GAIL CARRIGER

I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'...
GAIL CARRIGER

I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does...
GAIL CARRIGER

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell...
GAIL CARRIGER

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific...
GAIL CARRIGER

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ...
GAIL CARRIGER

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Smoke machines are the best!
GAIL CARRIGER

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do a...
GAIL CARRIGER

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
GAIL CARRIGER

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave...
GAIL CARRIGER

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact,...
GAIL CARRIGER

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apa...
GAIL CARRIGER

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads boo...
GAIL CARRIGER

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

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get swee...
GAIL CARRIGER

My dearest girl,' said the vampire finally, examining Lord Maccon with an exhausted but appre...
GAIL CARRIGER

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the s...
GAIL CARRIGER

Madame Lefoux accepted a cup of tea and sat on another little settee, next to the relocated calico c...
GAIL CARRIGER

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a...
GAIL CARRIGER

Follow that porcupine!
GAIL CARRIGER

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affectio...
GAIL CARRIGER

As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (wi...
GAIL CARRIGER

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.
GAIL CARRIGER

Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...
GAIL CARRIGER

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the ...
GAIL CARRIGER

I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
GAIL CARRIGER

There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.
GAIL CARRIGER

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither t...
GAIL CARRIGER

But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?” Lord Akeldama misquoted.
GAIL CARRIGER

Like to go somewhere more private and be scandalous some more?
GAIL CARRIGER

Torture?” Primrose’s tone was thoughtful. “Cold tea?” “German poetry.” Percy reached to ...
GAIL CARRIGER

He also seemed to speak predominantly in italics.
GAIL CARRIGER

You, sir, are a bad scientist!
GAIL CARRIGER

The greatest unwritten law of the supernatural set was that one simply didn’t steal someone else�...
GAIL CARRIGER

Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big—there was a distinct difference.
GAIL CARRIGER

He also grew a very large and scruffy beard, with which she was far less delighted.
"A man's v...
GAIL CARRIGER

One could not blame a people for disliking vampires. Vampires were like brussels sprouts - not for e...
GAIL CARRIGER

The werewolf hit the exsanguination chamber in a vicious storm of fang and claw and began unceremoni...
GAIL CARRIGER

It’ll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn’t.
GAIL CARRIGER

Professor Lyall looked modestly proud. "I am considered a bit of an expert on the procreative practi...
GAIL CARRIGER

Sheep?"
"Sheep."
"Sheep!"
...
"Yes, as in baaaa.
GAIL CARRIGER

How often have I warned you against fraternizing with technology?
GAIL CARRIGER

All the best geniuses are evil,
GAIL CARRIGER

He could not stand Alexia Tarabotti, even if her lovely brown eyes twinkled when she laughed, and sh...
GAIL CARRIGER

Professor Lyall looked modestly proud. "I am considered a bit of an expert on the procreative practi...
GAIL CARRIGER

Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat ...
GAIL CARRIGER

Ivy did as she was told, face serious and concentrated. “I shield in the name of fashion. I access...
GAIL CARRIGER

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial insi...
GAIL CARRIGER

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like."
"Ad...
GAIL CARRIGER

What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interfe...
GAIL CARRIGER

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in whi...
GAIL CARRIGER

Ball?” said one of the Pistons with interest. “We like balls.”
Dimity gave them her best,...
GAIL CARRIGER

Can’t you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don’t grow that beautiful. Not outside o...
GAIL CARRIGER

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr...
GAIL DEVERS

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'...
GAIL COLLINS

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&...
GAIL COLLINS

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to br...
GAIL COLLINS

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember th...
GAIL COLLINS

The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica...
GAIL COLLINS

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
GAIL COLLINS

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some...
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revis...
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing t...
GAIL SIMMONS

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I...
GAIL SIMMONS

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu...
GAIL SIMMONS

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
GAIL SIMMONS

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though...
GAIL SIMMONS

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finis...
GAIL SIMMONS

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'To...
GAIL SIMMONS

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars...
GAIL SIMMONS

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food...
GAIL SIMMONS

You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo...
GAIL SIMMONS

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
GAIL SIMMONS

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh...
GAIL SIMMONS

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that...
GAIL SIMMONS

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
GAIL SIMMONS

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
GAIL SIMMONS

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have...
GAIL SIMMONS

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b...
GAIL SIMMONS

I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself...
GAIL SIMMONS

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the p...
GAIL SHEEHY

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
GAIL SHEEHY

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
GAIL SHEEHY

I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
GAIL SHEEHY

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
GAIL SHEEHY

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
GAIL SHEEHY

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll ...
GAIL SHEEHY

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable sel...
GAIL SHEEHY

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appre...
GAIL SHEEHY

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that ma...
GAIL SHEEHY

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ...
GAIL SHEEHY

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
GAIL SHEEHY

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a na...
GAIL SHEEHY

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
GAIL SHEEHY

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fea...
GAIL SHEEHY

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of ski...
GAIL SHEEHY

I do tend to overdo everything.
GAIL PORTER

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ...
GAIL PORTER

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER

I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER

Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
GAIL PORTER

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
GAIL PORTER

I don't believe in God.
GAIL PORTER

The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera...
GAIL PORTER

Every day I do something that freaks me out.
GAIL PORTER

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear...
GAIL PORTER

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop...
GAIL PORTER

I try to cope with everything through humor.
GAIL PORTER

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
GAIL PORTER

Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
GAIL PORTER

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
GAIL PORTER

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER

So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really...
GAIL PORTER

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
GAIL PARENT

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
GAIL PARENT

Laughter made you live better and longer.
GAIL PARENT

I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to d...
GAIL O'GRADY

The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
GAIL O'GRADY

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
GAIL GODWIN

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
GAIL GODWIN

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. Pe...
GAIL DEVERS

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody...
GAIL DEVERS

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans ...
GAIL DEVERS

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a m...
GAIL DEVERS

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment...
GAIL DEVERS

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS

It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
GAIL DEVERS

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p...
GAIL DEVERS

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being...
GAIL DEVERS

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me...
GAIL DEVERS

I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. ...
GAIL DEVERS

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was ...
GAIL DEVERS

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
GAIL DEVERS

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.
GAIL DEVERS

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my k...
GAIL DEVERS

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something...
GAIL DEVERS

It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
GAIL DEVERS

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat...
GAIL DEVERS

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habi...
GAIL SHEEHY

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill...
GAIL COLLINS

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON

Everything seems simpler from a distance.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
GAIL GODWIN

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you...
GAIL GODWIN

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va...
GAIL PARENT

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
GAIL SHEEHY

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS

There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in th...
GAIL COLLINS

In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppres...
GAIL COLLINS

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting...
GAIL COLLINS

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
GAIL COLLINS

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their go...
GAIL COLLINS

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing ho...
GAIL COLLINS

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY

Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY

Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cinc...
GAIL COLLINS

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to d...
GAIL COLLINS

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit...
GAIL COLLINS

Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created...
GAIL COLLINS

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN

I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen...
GAIL COLLINS

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues th...
GAIL COLLINS

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci...
GAIL SIMMONS

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