297 Quotes by Naomi Novik

There had been something gentle in her, a pool of magic, not a running stream that had washed away all the ordinary parts of her life.

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.

She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.

She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.

I can't," I said. "I have a crown. If it means anything, it means this.""Then leave it," she said. "Leave it, Irinushka. It's only sorrow on sorrow."I bent and kissed her cheek. "Help me put it on," I said softly, and she went and took it with tears in her eyes

Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through.

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

The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it

I reached out my hands to them, suddenly: I put out my hand to Sergey on one side, and to Stepon on the other, and they put out their hands to me, and to each other, and we held tight, tight; we made a circle together, my brothers and me, around the food that we had been given, and there was no wolf in the room.