Naomi Novik famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)
-- Naomi Novik

#Beautiful #Lonely #Home
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
-- Naomi Novik

#Giving Up #Heart #Responsibility
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
-- Naomi Novik

#Fighting #Thinking #Leaving
Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.
-- Naomi Novik

#Together #Sitting #Firsts
Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.
-- Naomi Novik

#Son #Giving #Heaven
I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.
-- Naomi Novik

#Laughing #Insulting #Going Away
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.
-- Naomi Novik

#Justice #Littles #Influence
Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
-- Naomi Novik

#Running #Blood #Trying
The MagiciansÂ brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking whatâ€™s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. Itâ€™s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.
-- Naomi Novik

#Simple #Glasses #Magic
It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there
-- Naomi Novik

#Thinking #Dragons #Law
Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.
-- Naomi Novik

#Enough #Deals #Conspirators
I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
-- Naomi Novik

#Thinking #Two #Devil
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.
-- Naomi Novik

#Animal #Simple #Swings
I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
-- Naomi Novik

#Sleep #Gold #Should
I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.
-- Naomi Novik

#Tired #Government #Doe
It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
-- Naomi Novik

#Luck #Four #Three
Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
-- Naomi Novik

#New York #Believe #Unicorn
Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
-- Naomi Novik

#Nice #Book #Said
I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
-- Naomi Novik

#Worry #Needs #Three
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
-- Naomi Novik

#Notebook #Coffee #Writing

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