The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.