I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

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.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

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.

You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

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