Quotes by Naomi Novik

About Naomi Novik:

Naomi Novik is an American writer. She is best known for her Temeraire fantasy/alternate history series of eight novels. Her first book, His Majesty's Dragon, won the 2007 Compton Crook Award for best novel in the science fiction and fantasy category. She was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novel in 2007.
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I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

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

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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.

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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...

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

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

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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

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

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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 lik...

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Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at h...

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I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the l...

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If you will pardon my saying so," Tharkay said, "you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?

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I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words,...

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

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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 in...

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You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry himself, "like all your country-men, who show no respect for that which is superior, and insult our customs." "For which I might consider myself as owing...

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Author Bio

  • NameNaomi Novik
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 30, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsCompton Crook Award