#steam

They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and... They were in love. Sometimes that was enough. ↗

— Lavie Tidhar

#machines #steampunk #love

I fall against the wall with her, smothering her mouth with mine in an assault of lust, love, kisses. I want it all over her. To fill her with what I feel inside of me. A star? A wish? I wish we weren’t in the damn hallway of the store. I wish this were my bed and I could go slower. I wish time could cease and this moment could go on forever. I wish I could appreciate all of the sounds I’m regrettably swallowing down to keep us a secret. Her whispered pleas for more. More. I wish I had more. ↗

— Pella Grace

#steamy-romance #love

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. ↗

— Fernán Caballero

#force #inspirational #power #steam #will

Supervillain" means never having to say you're sorry ↗

— G.D. Falksen

#inspirational #steampunk #inspirational

Wine?" I asked, ready to order. "I’d rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#love #romantic #sex #steamy #inspirational

People have to understand how important it is for the players to let off steam, switch off and relax. ↗

— Will Carling

#important #off #people #players #relax

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives. ↗

— John Ericsson

#power #providing #steam

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#born #eye #i #i was born #late

The Ketty Jay was staffed with drunkards and drifters, all of them running from something -- whether it be memories or enemies or the drudgery of land-bound life -- but since Yortland they'd been running in the same direction. United by that common purpose, they'd begun to turn into something resembling a crew. And Frey had begun to turn into something resembling a captain. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#retribution-fals #steampunk #life

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning... ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#descriptive-prose #dystopia #from-review #paranormal-romance #post-apocalyptic