I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
Temeraire said, ‘It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, “Would you like to see my plate?
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
I am of the opinion”, Tharkay said, “that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.
I grabbed back at him just as incautiously with my hand and my magic both, even as he pressed magic on me from his side as well. His breath huffed out sharply, and our workings caught on one another, magic gushing into them.
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
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.
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.
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
And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?
You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing
All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.