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“I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."

"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.”

Naomi Novik book Throne of Jade

Source: Throne of Jade

“He wasn’t a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“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…”

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“There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.”

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“You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing”

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Naomi Novik Quotes about thinking

“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“He snorted. “He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero.” None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“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 but wash my hands and deny responsibility”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling thewasn't really meant to be cast alone: as if truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Naomi Novik Quotes about time

“I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

Naomi Novik book Tongues of Serpents

Source: Tongues of Serpents

“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.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Naomi Novik Quotes

“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”

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“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.”

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“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.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

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“And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--"
"Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”

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“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?”

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Source: Uprooted

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“But she hadn't been able to take root. 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.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out.”

Naomi Novik book Black Powder War

Source: Black Powder War

“Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.”

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Source: Uprooted

“I wanted to rub handprints through his dust”

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“The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.”

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“I’m not stupid, nor a liar,” I said, “and if I can’t do any good, I can at least do something”

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“His name tasted of fire and wings, of curling smoke, of subtlety and strength and the rasping whisper of scales.”

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“Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?”

Naomi Novik

Source: Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“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 Barham.”

Naomi Novik book Throne of Jade

Source: Throne of Jade

“Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

“He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.”

Naomi Novik book Black Powder War

Source: Black Powder War

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