“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.”

“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.”

“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”

“He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.”

“After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”

“Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”

“We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.”

“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”

“He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.”

“Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.”

“For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.”

“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”