But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.
Truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.
If people grew milder or kinder with age, he certainly hadn’t.
And a clean pocket-handkerchief. The
You refused him, he said to me, almost angrily. I’m not a fool, to take gifts from monsters, I said. Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price. He laughed, a lit...
You have not paid for this victory, false one, cheat, and I will give you nothing.
We were of the valley. Born in the valley, of families planted too deep to leave even when they knew their daughter might be taken; raised in the valley, drinking of whatever power also fed the Wood.
This wasn’t about truth at all. The court didn’t want truth, the king didn’t want truth. Any truth I could give them, they could ignore as easily as the rest. It wouldn’t change their minds.
There’s a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste,
The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.
Si no quieres que alguien se muera, no lo aporrees una y otra vez en la cabeza.
Recordaba lo que no debía, y había olvidado demasiado. Recordaba cómo matar y cómo odiar, y se le había olvidado cómo crecer.
Proper circus you make,' Berkley said, with a snort of laughter Laurence considered unnecessary, when they landed in the clearing and set the dog down; it promptly went tearing around the parade groun...
No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back, Temeraire said.
No, my dear, he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.
My girl, my brave girl had done this. She had gone and come back bloody and she had brought us back the spring. And she had come back, she had come back, which was worth all the spring and more for me...
It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular.
If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?
I worked very hard after that. I took as much of Da's work as I could. I didn't want to make a row of dead babies and die.
I watched them roam awhile, and had a small weep, but even grief had its limits. By dinner-time I was horribly bored.