297 Quotes by Naomi Novik

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry himself, "like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our customs.""For which I might consider myself as owing you some apology, sir, if you yourself had not so often insulted myself and my own country, or shown respect for any customs other than your own," Laurence said.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble.

I did not really need Magretta to tell me that love had caught my father like an unwilling fish, and having slipped the hook he had been glad to forget he had ever been on it in the first place.

Oh, how I’d enjoyed all that sweet crisp righteous anger, my favorite drug: I’d nearly ridden the high straight into murder.

My anger's a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.

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.

Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?