“ Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey. ”
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
~ Gail Carriger
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
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
