Quotes About Naomi Novik

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.

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.

Sarkan, I said, holding the smoke and thunder of his name in my mouth like a prize, and slid onto him.

Whatever was carrying me dropped me again with an ungraceful thump, and I lay gasping and throat-sore on the earth—the warm earth, lush with soft green grass, though it silvered with frost in a circle around where the Staryk knelt.

She really did an excellent job of making it seem perfectly ludicrous for me to be living quietly in my own home instead of keeping close tabs on the latest news from international wizarding circles.

The only thing that had ever done me any good in my father's house was thinking: Novik, Naomi. Spinning Silver: A Novel (p. 196). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.