And listen to me: what you’ve done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don’t let Solya take all the credit, and don’t be shy of using it.
And if you have been lying about it, Iskierka put in, having roused enough from her napping to follow the conversation, with slitted eyes, you may be quite sure you will all be sorry: if anything has...
Temeraire:) Can one hire a translator to say things properly?Yes; they are called lawyers, Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.
She’s been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she’s ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.
Magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it.
Could have devoured the rest of the valley overnight. But a tree isn’t a woman; it doesn’t bear a single seed. It scatters as many of them as it can, and hopes for some of them to grow.
Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
Well, I don't know, yet, the dragonet said, but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.
The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains.
Success excuses all risks.
Rich meant that this room with three beds and a table and chairs and a window filled with glass was something to say sorry for.
It wasn’t that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn’t, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life...
It comes, I suppose, I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.
I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life d...
I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them—this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn’t a whole man.
I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be!-Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.
I didn’t know how to answer anything so brazen; the only thing I could have managed would have been an inarticulate hiss.
However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can...
How far would we have to go to run from winter?
He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and so...