Quotes from book

Goliath

“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”

“Have a little faith in me, Volger."
"I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.”

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

“It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's.”

“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

“Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”

“Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

“Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw”

“Emperors are vain and useless things.”

“Oh, this beast? It's… perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.”

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

“What if destiny doesn't care?”