Teaser Tuesday 2.4.2013

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lista if they like your teasers!

I'm reading a wonderful steampunk novel A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz.
The book starts with one of the best opening lines ever:

This was the place where people came to give their souls to fairies.

I was totally sold when I read that.:)

My teaser is from p. 177. A bookish one this time. ;)

'Here, allow me.' In two steps, March climbed on to the ladder next to her. She felt the lenght of his big body stretch up against hers as he reached up past her to grip the book. They stood like that, coddled by vellum and wood panels, alone in a universe of books.