Top Steampunk Quotes

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

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.

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...

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.

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

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 t...

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.

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

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...

May your song guide you home.

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...

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

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

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 butTher...