I will lay my hand upon the flow of time, if need be, that you shall have however much of it you seek.
I reached out my hands to them, suddenly: I put out my hand to Sergey on one side, and to Stepon on the other, and they put out their hands to me, and to each other, and we held tight, tight; we made...
Then she’d straightened up and announced in irritation, I’ve fallen out of time, before vanishing in a great cloud of smoke.
I did not really need Magretta to tell me that love had caught my father like an unwilling fish, and having slipped the hook he had been glad to forget he had ever been on it in the first place.
There are authorities to choose from, Tharkay said, to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer.
The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: no one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been...
I would have preferred it if she'd slapped me across the face, and laughed at me, so I could hate her. I didn't want to be the good fairy in her story, scattering blessings on her hearth. Where did al...
I tried to make him a young court-wizard in my mind—he almost looked the part in his fine clothes, pursuing some lovely noblewoman—and there my imagination stumbled. He was a thing of books and alembi...
So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let them make us both widows.
Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through.
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched...
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Ba...
The gate is perfectly simple, Temeraire said. There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smalles...
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can b...
I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever, Maximus said, but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.
I had hated him, but I wouldn’t have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn’t a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature...
Feiglings! Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.
You intolerable lunatic, he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.
What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.