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I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the
– Gail Carriger

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  2. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. – Romain Rolland
  3. I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much… – Robert Gacho
  4. There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. – Charles Bukowski
  5. A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
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  8. Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. – Gail Carriger
  9. And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don’t you? – Gail Carriger
  10. Just because history says it isn’t possible doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions. – Gail Carriger
  11. We like the shadows. That’s where all the power is. – Gail Carriger
  12. Trust is a lot to ask of someone. – Gail Carriger
  13. Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die? – Gail Carriger
  14. …you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one’s verbal concatenation! – Gail Carriger
  15. But I don’t want to be a vampire drone.’ Sophronia winced. ‘They’ll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions. – Gail Carriger
  16. He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog. – Gail Carriger
  17. Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter. – Gail Carriger
  18. Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary. – Gail Carriger
  19. For you, it’s gossip. For me, it’s action. – Gail Carriger
  20. Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information. – Gail Carriger
  21. We’re a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple. – Gail Carriger
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  24. [She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing. – Gail Carriger
  25. It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten. – Gail Carriger
  26. It didn’t feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who’d agreed to the job. – Gail Carriger
  27. Lyall’s face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse – Gail Carriger
  28. Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.--œAw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present! – Gail Carriger
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  30. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess. – Gail Carriger
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  39. There’s a difference between a miracle, and something impossible. A miracle is not impossible-”just merely unlikely. – Nick Nwaogu
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