297 Quotes by Naomi Novik

No, my dear,” he said at last, softly, knowing it was only the truth. “I would rather have you than any ship in the Navy.

Was I starting to feel evil? Yes. Now I was worrying I’d be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.

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

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?

And I know nobody gets to live or not live because they deserve it, deserving doesn’t count for a thing, but the point was, I now felt deep in my heart that I was in fact a better human being than Magnus or Todd, and hooray, all the prizes for me, but that wasn’t helpful when what I actually needed was reasons why I shouldn’t just wipe them out of existence.

It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular.

I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha’pence for any empire other than our valley, if that can content your ambition.

She didn’t mean anything,” Kasia said, brave brave brave, the way I hadn’t been for her.

If I could have remembered, at least some of the words would have been wrong: like hearing again a half-remembered favorite tale from childhood and finding it unsatisfying, or at least not as I’d remembered it.