Quotes from Naomi Novik

Si no quieres que alguien se muera, no lo aporrees una y otra vez en la cabeza.

JANE," LAURENCE SAID, "will you marry me?" "Why, no, dear fellow," she said, looking up in surprise from the chair where she was drawing on her boots. "It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered," she added, and standing up kissed him heartily, before she put on her coat.

anything like her, and that the means mattered as much as the ends, but that wasn't any help; I already knew. I was just angry.

I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters. Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price.

Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.

Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.

there is no decision to be made at present; and because we do not know what may be wrong there, we cannot think of something to do now. So you should not worry until we have arrived and seen how matters stand.

I didn't want to die, and I didn't want to kill; I didn't want to go to death a murderer with bloody hands. I wanted that more than I didn't want to be a liar. But he was going to die anyway, die worse, and they would all die with him. There were a thousand ways to die, and not all of them were equally as bad.

Adevouring thing that would gulp down lives with pleasure and would only pretend to care about law or justice, unless you had some greater power behind you that it couldn't find a way to cheat or break, and that would never, never be satisfied.

gently reminding me that people don't think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they're all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.

Happiness was bubbling up through me, a bright stream laughing.

Ses longs doigts fins étaient toujours enroulés autour des miens, [...] J'eus soudain beaucoup trop chaud et je fus subitement trop consciente de mon corps. Je retirai mes mains.

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

Recordaba lo que no debía, y había olvidado demasiado. Recordaba cómo matar y cómo odiar, y se le había olvidado cómo crecer.

My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died. The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third — that fools should recognize neither.

I'd been ready to go down to the graduation hall and fight for my life; I'd been ready to fight for the lives of everyone I knew, for the chance of a future. I didn't need this much more to lose.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing

Su nombre sabía a fuego y a alas, a volutas de humo, a sutileza y a fuerza, y al rasposo susurro de las escamas.

Even when mundanes didn't have science to helpfully explain the world and happily burned witches at the stake, they didn't really believe in magic. If you believed in magic, you wouldn't drag a witch to the stake; you'd have her lob fireballs at your enemies instead.

He wasn't unkind, but he had all Sarkan's obsessive hunger for explanation, with none of his willingness to bend. If Ballo couldn't find it in a book, that meant it couldn't be so, and if he found it in three books, that meant it was the unvarnished truth.

Hij is gebruikt om de bibliotheek van Alexandrië plat te branden.' 'Waarom vraag je in hemelsnaam om zo'n spreuk?' 'Ik vroeg een spreuk om mijn kamer te verlichten, lul, en dat is wat ik kreeg.

The lightning took away the world again, that single terrible moment of blind white silence everywhere around me, and then it jumped away from me roaring with thunder and struck the massive heart-tree, a shattering blow down the middle.

Jij voelt alsof het gaat regenen. - Aadhya

A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women's work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water.