“ . . and it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to kill innocent dragons all around Britain: almost certainly a pack of lies, as Forthing admitted they had… Naomi Novik
“ I thought I could smell the sorcery in him, a sharp pungent mix of cinnamon and pepper and resin of pine, and deep below it burning woodsmoke. Naomi Novik
“ I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble. Naomi Novik
“ I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody. Naomi Novik
“ Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and we weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that. Naomi Novik
“ I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone… Naomi Novik
“ If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs. Naomi Novik
“ I am of the opinion, Tharkay said, that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull. Naomi Novik
“ You are not wrong, Laurence said. He had assumed as much himself, after all, in his Navy days: had thought the Corps full of wild, devil-may-care libertines, disregarding law and authority as far as t… Naomi Novik
“ There had been something gentle in her, a pool of magic, not a running stream that had washed away all the ordinary parts of her life. Naomi Novik
“ Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and were weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that. Naomi Novik
“ Fear and work weren't all bad, as companions went. They were both better than loneliness, and the deeper fears, the worse ones that I knew would come true: that I wouldn't see my mother and father for… Naomi Novik
“ You’ve been inexpressibly lucky, he said finally. And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing Naomi Novik
“ I don't want more sense! I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to? Naomi Novik
“ Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects! Naomi Novik
“ Araminta had generally considered the laws of etiquette as the rules of the chase, and divided them into categories: those which everyone broke, all the time; those which one could not break without b… Naomi Novik
“ You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world, Yongxing said, growing angry himself, like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our custo… Naomi Novik
“ Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the… Naomi Novik
