Naomi Novik

“The crew were all of them inclined to cough and sneeze, the boys particularly, and Keynes said, "We ought put them all…

— Naomi Novik

“For his part, Temeraire had been following this exchange with cocked head and increasing confusion; now he said, "I do not understand…

— Naomi Novik

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

— Naomi Novik

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry…

— Naomi Novik

“One man can go where a group cannot, and manage on very little, particularly a rough adventurer such as he. More the…

— Naomi Novik

“It was all right when I did it,” I said, “but when you did it, it was wrong. As though—you were following…

— Naomi Novik

Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very…

— Naomi Novik

“Her beautiful face was blank as an unwritten book.”

— Naomi Novik

“But I realized now that without quite thinking it through, I'd half-imagined myself a place here in the tower. My little room…

— Naomi Novik

“No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back,”…

— Naomi Novik

“I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can…

— Naomi Novik

“Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them,…

— Naomi Novik

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

— Naomi Novik

“I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low. "I will take a few volunteers - " "Oh,…

— Naomi Novik

“I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother…

— Naomi Novik

“We leave tonight," he continued, very cold and calm, "and we take the eggs with us.”

— Naomi Novik

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn’t care: I didn’t feel I owed him beauty.”

— Naomi Novik

Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is…

— Naomi Novik

“. . . and it came out that this King Arthur and his knights had done nothing of real note but to…

— Naomi Novik

“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out." — Temeraire, on being inside an egg ”

— Naomi Novik

“Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.”

— Naomi Novik

“You intolerable lunatic,” he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”

— Naomi Novik

“I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation.”

— Naomi Novik

I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all…

— Naomi Novik

“The soldiers were already laying pikes along the wall by torch-light, with the points bristling upwards; they had draped cloaks over the…

— Naomi Novik