Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, Would you like to see my plate?
Wat heb je nú weer gedaan, stommeling? - De Draak
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...
That man with my brother is an envoy
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...
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...
There's no kindness in offering false hope.
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.
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...
Lady, though you choose a home in the sunlit world, you are a Staryk queen indeed.
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...
I [Miryem] went staggering to all the shelves in the room, looking for anything left to change, and when I didn’t find anything after going round three times, I just stood there stupidly for a few mor...
How far would we have to go to run from winter?
The soldiers were already laying pikes along the wall by torch-light, with the points bristling upwards; they had draped cloaks over the poles to make small tents to sleep under. A few of them were si...
I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever, Maximus said, but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.
Hush, sweetheart. You don't have a mother anymore, but let me to speak to you with her voice a minute. Listen. Stepon told us what happened in your house. There are men who are wolves inside, and want...
Feiglings! Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.
Don’t stand there like a cretin, he said. Take it.
Did the tsar refuse to marry you? I asked. I thought the duke might have been angry with her if he had: he hadn't seemed like a man to be satisfied if his plans went awry.No, she said. I am tsarina. F...
[Maximus] put his head down and said in a conspiratorial whisper, Tell Temeraire that Lily and I have not forgotten our promise; we will not let them hang you at all.Laurence stared up at the immense...