We are not going to be herded anywhere we do not like, [Temeraire] said, dangerously, by Napoleon or by your admirals; and if you like to ask the other dragons of the Corps to try it, I expect they wi...
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...
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.
Lady, though you choose a home in the sunlit world, you are a Staryk queen indeed.
I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
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...
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...
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...
Крадецът, който е откраднал нож и се е порязал на него, не може да обвинява домакинята, че го е държала остър.
True, but unkind anyway.
[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...
The water-dragon’s name was Lady Kiyomizu, although much to Junichiro’s horror she breezily told Laurence to call her Kiyo, and not to stand on formality. You have no manners anyway, she said, and the...
She’d remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She’d remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she’d forgotten how to grow.
Listen, you impossible creature, he said, I'm a century and more older than--Oh, be quiet, I said impatiently.
It's not seemly for a girl, my grandmother tried, but my grandfather snorted.Gold doesn't know the hand that holds it, he said, and frowned at me, but in a pleased way.
I grabbed back at him just as incautiously with my hand and my magic both, even as he pressed magic on me from his side as well. His breath huffed out sharply, and our workings caught on one another,...
Hollin was still sitting with Levitas’s head in his lap, a bucket now beside him; he was squeezing water from a clean cloth into the dragon’s open mouth. He looked at Rankin without bothering to hide...
He looked at me, baffled and for the first time uncertain, as though he had stumbled into something, unprepared. His long narrow hands were cradled around mine, both of us holding the rose together. M...
We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.