When she awoke, the world was on fire.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!