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.
He is mine, too.
Keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature,
No. Laurence said, I mean to retire when we have returned. I have enough money to keep Temeraire now, and enough of a countenance to ask my brother to put us up on one of the farms. Or they might retu...
But none of that matters at all. His head raised to stare balefully at me, but I said, incoherent yet convinced, It’s just—a way to go. There isn’t only one way to go. I waved at his notes. You’re try...
When they had dismounted, he indulged himself in a shudder of his whole body. That is more than I undertake to do again!' --this to the admiral, in reproachful tones. Those two monstrously large beast...
We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.
Maximus coughed a while longer, but in the middle of the night towards the end of the week, they were all woken by a terrible squealing, distant shrieks of terror and fire; in a panic they burst out f...
It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go the...
And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?
I needn’t be offended every time I have to look at you
I do not think you are in any danger of starving, Maximus said. The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat.The devil! Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amuseme...
Bring me the winter king, and I will make you a summer queen.
Your Majesty, I am a soldier, not a statesman; and I have no great philosophy but that I love my country. I came because it was my duty as a Christian and a man; now it is my duty to return.
I wanted to scream, to weep. I wanted to drag my hand across the world and wipe it.
I recognized that hunger: a devouring thing that would gulp down lives with pleasure and would only pretend to care about law or justice, unless you had some greater power behind you that it couldn’t...
You learn to feel it less, child; or you learn to love other things.
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as...
What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.