“Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.”
― The Leviathan Trilogy
― The Leviathan Trilogy
“But it wasn’t any of those reasons that had set her on this course, Deryn knew. Alek was here in the city and needed help. Perhaps it was daft to risk everything for some barking prince, a boy who didn't even know she was a girl. But it was no more daft than Alek walking across a glacier to assist a wounded enemy airship, was it?”
― Behemoth
― Behemoth
“If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren’t, why did she feel this way inside?”
― Goliath
― Goliath
“Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms.
“Deryn” he sobbed. Anything but this.”
― Goliath
“Deryn” he sobbed. Anything but this.”
― Goliath
“He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city’s millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him.
Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.”
― Goliath
Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.”
― Goliath
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