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and if they were both outcast for the same reason, they might at least have the pleasure of each other's society for compensation.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.

If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?

A life before you in the moment isn't worth a hundred elsewhere, three months from now.

That was a story, too; they all had stories.

and a clean pocket-handkerchief. The

Her fire was roaring, her silhouette raising showers of orange sparks with a hammer made of shadow.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.

Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.

I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.

There's no kindness in offering false hope.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

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

It's a lie that matches his desire.

I am of the opinion", Tharkay said, "that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.

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

Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.

She's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.

If Napoleon can seek to ascend all the thrones of Europe, I suppose we may go dragging them out from under him

The cows were all running around their pen in manic terror.

I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you

They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring.

All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.

I'm not your dear girl, Kasia said, with a bite in her tone that silenced him.

The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.

Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than
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"Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.

Success excuses all risks.

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

Keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature,

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

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.

There's a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste,

I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever," Maximus said, "but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be!
-Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben,

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

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

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

There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

They moved out of Jena early the next morning, with Prince Louis and the rest of the advance guard, for the town of Saalfeld,

And listen to me: what you've done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don't let Solya take all the credit, and don't be shy of using it.

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

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

I watched them roam awhile, and had a small weep, but even grief had its limits. By dinner-time I was horribly bored.

What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good.

We may meet again; the world is not after all so very large a place." He

(Temeraire "Can one hire a translator to say things properly?"
"Yes; they are called lawyers," Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.

Let her out!" I screamed at the tree. I beat on its trunk with my muddy fists. "Let her out, or I'll bring you down! Fulmia!" I cried out in rage ...

We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.

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

It felt like a war between two endless things, between a bottomless chasm and a running river.

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.

So I put together a street-going rig and came up with the courier.

You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something

No one had made her talk to me, or be in my company. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to the trouble just to be unpleasant.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Magic was singing in me, through me; I felt the murmur of his power singing back that same song.

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

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.

I wanted to rub handprints through his dust

I felt argument coiling in my belly.

What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.

It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out.
- Temeraire, on being inside an egg

he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked.

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

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

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