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...
Do you think I will be able to breathe fire or spit poison? Temeraire asked. I am not sure how I could tell; I tried, but I only blew air.
But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.
Because my demon told me to isn’t a generally accepted reason,
Temeraire:) Can one hire a translator to say things properly?Yes; they are called lawyers, Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.
¿Qué hay, aparte de la gente, a lo que merezca la pena aferrarse?
Then he spluttered at me, You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now? I
If people grew milder or kinder with age, he certainly hadn’t.
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.
And her laugh was like a song that made you want to sing it.
The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains.
Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.
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 seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
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.
It certainly went quicker to throw money away than to make it
I wanted to rub handprints through his dust
I have been speaking with Dyhern a great deal on the subject of dueling, Temeraire said, and it seems plain to me that something must be done. You must give me your word, Laurence, that if anyone ever...
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 didn’t know how to answer anything so brazen; the only thing I could have managed would have been an inarticulate hiss.