Naomi Novik citations

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”