Romancing the Inventor Quotes

“She’s kind of like an odd, loud, fierce fairy godmother, isn’t she?”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“Dear Genevieve,” she would say, “I love that you are full of finer feelings and insist upon protecting me from myself, but if you do not rodger me this instant, I may perish away for the lack.“
Although, did two ladies together call it rodgering? Or was there a proper, more feminine word? Gertruding, perhaps?”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“Perched in one corner, like some sort of ship’s figurehead, was an oddly sinister wicker chicken. It frowned down upon her with an air of chubby disdain.”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“They filled Woolsey Castle with music and art, drifting about in a fog of intellectualism, and like any fog, they were unpredictable and occasionally quite damp. Imogene”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“Even if she’d known what to do with a man, how did one tempt another woman?”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“I prefer dusters. They’re so pleasingly feathery and round, and they can be twirled. No man in this village would abide a twirling.”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“And vampires were perverted. Or so she hoped”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“CHAPTER TWO In Which Inventors Have Powerful Dimples Imogene”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“For x, as it turned out, equaled two.”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“Used to accommodate a professor friend of mine, when the werewolves were here. I had it expanded, of course. He used it for sheep pickling.'
'Training sheep in how to pickle?' Imogene asked, confused.
'No, for pickling the sheep themselves.'
Imogene choked and then coughed in surprise.
'Werwolf thing. I would not think on it too closely.”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor

“Perhaps I should just strip bare and climb under her counterpane.”
― Gail Carriger, Romancing the Inventor