It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out.
. . 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...
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.
I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.
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.
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...
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.
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.
If they cannot be woken to a natural affection for their country, such as we feel, it is our fault and not theirs.
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...
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.
You’ve been inexpressibly lucky, he said finally. And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing
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.
Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
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?
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...
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...
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...
But the world I wanted wasn’t the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.
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...