“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”
―
Naomi Novik,
Uprooted
“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--""Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.” ― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.” ― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education
“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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, Throne of Jade
“Hush, sweetheart. You don't have a mother anymore, but let me to speak to you with her voice a minute. Listen. Stepon told us what happened in your house. There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than--""Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.” ― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
“I don't want more sense!" I said loudly, beating against the silence of the room. "Not if sense means I'll stop loving anyone. What is there besides people that's worth holding on to?” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.” ― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education
“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“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, Throne of Jade
“Hush, sweetheart. You don't have a mother anymore, but let me to speak to you with her voice a minute. Listen. Stepon told us what happened in your house. There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. That is all we can do for each other in the world, to keep the wolf away.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
“There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage.” ― Naomi Novik, Uprooted
“A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.” ― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
