After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?
You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true.
With a demon wanting to devour me, I was feeling inclined to be devout . . .
We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place. He
They looked at me and saw someone out of a story, who might ride by and be stared at, but didn’t belong in their lives at all.
They cut them down. They will always cut them down. They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring
There were forest depths in her eyes, green and unending.
There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.
The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.
That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.
So I put together a street-going rig and came up with the courier.
Once we're out of the Wood . . ., I said, but my voice died in my throat. I felt odd and sick. Did you ever get out of the Wood, if you'd been in it for twenty years?
Once down by the shore, only Temeraire went directly into the deep water and began to swim. Maximus came tentatively into the shallows, but went no further than he could stand, and Lily stood on the s...
It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything seems to be spoken for, Temeraire said,
I wouldn't hold myself that cheap, to marry a man who'd love me less than everything else he had, even if what he had was a winter kingdom.
I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.
I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than our valley, if that can content your ambition.
He stared up at me, and I stared back, panting. I hadn’t even known those words were in me to be spoken; I hadn’t known they were in me to be felt. I would never have thought of speaking so to my lord...
He settled for writing a letter, in a quiet corner, while Temeraire dictated his own:Gentlemen, I am very happy to accept your commission, and we should like to be the eighty-first regiment, if that n...
He held his hand out to me across the table.It was harder to take it this time, to make that deliberate choice, without the useful distraction of desperation.