297 Quotes by Naomi Novik

I needn’t be offended every time I have to look at you.

I’m an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

There were forest depths in her eyes, green and unending.

I’d want to. If you want, I want.

And then finally the magic flowed, but not the same way as when the Dragon’s spell-lessons dragged it in a rush out of me. Instead it seemed to me the sound of the chanting became a stream made to carry magic along, and I was standing by the water’s edge with a pitcher that never ran dry, pouring a thin silver line into the rushing current.

They cut them down. They will always cut them down. They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring.

Lady, though you choose a home in the sunlit world, you are a Staryk queen indeed.

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.

Everyone says you love a Dragon-born girl differently as she gets older; you can’t help it, knowing you so easily might lose her.