Steampunk Quotes

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

~ Criss Jami

I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption.

~ Maeve Alpin

How dare you! What is your name? I shall make it a sin to be spoken.”The braveness of his chuckle and grin made me step back. “Garrett. My name is Garrett and please make my name a sin to speak. Maybe that way I won’t have people like you screaming out for people like me, for people like you are so ghastly and in need of saving too many times.” Lucy to Garrett from my Steampunk YA Romance book I have started.

~ Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

The idea of marrying Lukan made her skin crawl. He was a Chenayan. She, a Norin. He was her conqueror. She, his conquered. He had been born and raised to lord over her. She had been born and raised to hate him. They might as well have been different species.

~ Gwynn White

May your song guide you home.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

As if the president gives a crap about demons and what they go through just because her father’s got horns?” Morganith returned. “She never opens her coward mouth about the quiet oppression the demons -- your people -- face every single day --!” “Our people,” Hari calmly corrected. “No,” said Morganith at once. “Halflings have never been anyone’s people.

~ Ash Gray

Junk?” Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn’t about to let that pass.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

~ Stefan Bachmann

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious…Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open.

~ Philip Pullman

I do the same with my books...Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who's already said all they have to say on the subject.

~ Betsy Cornwell

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

~ J. Leigh Bralick

The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

~ Gregory Funaro

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west.Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

~ Jim Butcher

Freedom is a state of mind.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared was the rarest of indulgences, perhaps especially in those days. For them, it had been love at first sight, and so my mother's death shattered my father. That it only dimmed his light rather than snuffed it out altogether was a miracle in and of itself. ~The Peacemakers ~(The Nemesis Engines)

~ Olivier A. Blanchard

I had rescued myself entirely.

~ Betsy Cornwell

Living on steam isn't easy.

~ Jessica Fortunato

«“I meant, tell me all about this steampunk thing!” Gavin broke in. “How does that concept work out for you people, here in Brazil?”“You don’t know about steampunk?” shouted Xavier, dubiously.“Well, I don’t read many novels! Because I’m kinda fully-booked already! But, obviously, you’re a science fiction writer at a Futurist conference! And I can see that you’re all dressed up like some fancy guy from the past, from the 19th century! So what gives with that? What is all that about?”»

~ Bruce Sterling

Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.

~ Betsy Cornwell

Geoff’s arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S. British-Craphole.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

~ Betsy Cornwell

When you read my stories, I want you to see the world through my eyes; as if I based my work on you. Come away with me, and I'll show you a world that you've never seen before or ever want to leave.

~ Nila N. Brown

The cracks grew over him like vines, faster and faster. At first he bucked, whinnying metallic screeches. Then he gradually stilled, looking up at me with frightened glass eyes.He was growing.New, molten glass leeched out between his fissures, cooled and hardened only to crack again and make room for more liquid glass. The gears inside him moaned and creaked, and metal filings gathered at the base of his transparent stomach, only to fly up again and form more joints and chains and gears. Black smoke poured from his nostrils.Soon he was the size of a large dog, then a man, and still he grew and grew until he towered over my bed, as big as any plow horse I’d ever seen. Glass dripped down his flanks like sweat, a few rivulets still glowing with molten heat.

~ Betsy Cornwell

Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you in and the feelings in the music take over and you become the music, you become the song.

~ Michelle Frost

This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He’d reminded her of an eagle, the Castellan of Amyth

~ Michelle Frost

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?Poor grammar skills.

~ Lita Burke

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

~ Mark Hodder

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is.

~ Mark Hodder

And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.

~ Courtney Brandt

Once more for Britain,� I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

~ Courtney Brandt

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

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.

~ G.d. Falksen

Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.

~ Jaleigh Johnson

I'm always homesick for the journey,” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...no matter what it may hold.

~ S.c. Barrus

There are creatures in this world, small things and pretty things, which burn within them a fire for survival.

~ S.c. Barrus

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

~ S.c. Barrus