Ticker Quotes

“Death wears a ball gown.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Life is short, so I’m going to have dessert whenever possible.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“I can’t see where I’m going if I only look where I’ve been, my good man!”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Don’t look at me like that. Don’t see me as some frail, useless creature. Fall in love with me, not the idea of rescuing me.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Fall in love with me, not the idea of rescuing me.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Penny, my darling,” he mumbled, “I hoped that someday I would wake to find you by my side. I just didn’t think it would be because you tried to kill me.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“I am more than a pretty little windup doll.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“I can't see where I'm going if I only look where I've been, my good man!”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“The Farthing women tend to leave the party without notice.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Then it was as though someone had uncorked a bottle of effervescent hatred and directed the resulting spray at me.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Attention, please, you demitasse of feminine frippery!”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“It might well kill me one of these days, but so might other less pleasant things.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“The greatest of things have yet to be seen.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and stratagem?”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“We’ve all had terrible things happen to us,” Marcus said without looking up. “Only the weak use it as an excuse to prey upon others.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Violet had approximately four hundred and seventy-three frowns in her repertoire, which ranged from “The Biscuits Went Flat” to “You’re Being Dreadfully Annoying.” Just now, still peeved with my brother, she wore “Don’t You Use That Tone of Voice on Me.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“I chose the former, but not by a”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“SIX In Which Various Events Shake Our Heroine to the Foundation (Not Garments)”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“TWO In Which a Stream of Trouble Flows into a River of Mayhem”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Grimthorpe’s Custom Velocipedes,”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“ONE In Which a Young Lady of Good Standing and Impeccable Moral Character Enters the Scene”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“What’s it like? Falling in love, I mean.” Dimitria slipped her hand into mine, and it was colder than expected though color splashed her cheeks. “Like my heart was an anchor dropped from the side of a boat.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Attention, please, you demitasse of feminine frippery!" he barked.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“Ding! Ding! Ding! I tapped the brass bell in rapid succession until Violet bustled in from the back room, wearing the blue-and-white pinafore that was the SugarWerks’s uniform and a frown that was not. The same age as Nic and I, Violet wore her amethyst hair spiked and a brass gearring stud on the left side of her nose. On one set of knuckles, BAKE was tattooed in elaborate black calligraphy; CAKE was on the other. Today she had an aquamarine bow pinned to the top of her head, a silver cupcake and crossbones marking the spot between the two loops of ribbon.”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker

“To the steampunk community, including artisans like Richard “Doc” Nagy (sadly lost to us) and musicians like Professor Elemental, Steam Powered Giraffe, Vagabond Opera, and Abney Park. You are an endless source of joy and inspiration,”
― Lisa Mantchev, Ticker