“Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.”

“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.”