Naomi Novik
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I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I w... NAOMI NOVIK And listen to me: what you’ve done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don’t let So... NAOMI NOVIK I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she’d put ... NAOMI NOVIK No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly momen... NAOMI NOVIK There's no kindness in offering false hope. NAOMI NOVIK I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant t... NAOMI NOVIK I wanted to rub handprints through his dust NAOMI NOVIK But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. Sh... NAOMI NOVIK We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever. NAOMI NOVIK I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty. NAOMI NOVIK What an unequaled gift for disaster you have. NAOMI NOVIK And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken... NAOMI NOVIK I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ag... NAOMI NOVIK It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out."— Temeraire, on being inside an egg... NAOMI NOVIK I think we must only a few of us go," Laurence said, low. "I will take a few volunteers - " NAOMI NOVIK Well, I only wish you may all not have your throats slit by Uygurs," Riley said in deep pessimism, g... NAOMI NOVIK Temeraire--NAOMI NOVIK Rankin put down his glass and stared at him coldly. “I beg your pardon?” he said. “I gather th... NAOMI NOVIK Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly. NAOMI NOVIK Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with en... NAOMI NOVIK Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. ... NAOMI NOVIK I needn’t be offended every time I have to look at you NAOMI NOVIK The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can ... NAOMI NOVIK If you don't want a man dead, don't bludgeon him over the head repeatedly. NAOMI NOVIK You are not wrong," Laurence said. He had assumed as much himself, after all, in his Navy days: had ... NAOMI NOVIK No." Laurence said, "I mean to retire when we have returned. I have enough money to keep Temeraire n... NAOMI NOVIK All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to beli... NAOMI NOVIK Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate? NAOMI NOVIK I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see y... NAOMI NOVIK I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on. NAOMI NOVIK There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing an... NAOMI NOVIK You speak in ignorant disdain of the foremost nation of the world," Yongxing said, growing angry him... NAOMI NOVIK You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,” he said finally. “And inexpressibly mad, although in your ca... NAOMI NOVIK I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ... NAOMI WATTS NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as ... NAOMI WEISSTEIN Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of the... NAOMI WEISSTEIN There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli... NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ... NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child. NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma... NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer... NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol... NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ... NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref... NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def... NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,... NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life. NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve... NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ... NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more. NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has... NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you... NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec... NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ... NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not... NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. NAOMI WATTS My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou... NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people. NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ... NAOMI SCOTT No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things. NAOMI SCOTT I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm... NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r... NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ... NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ... NAOMI SCOTT All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are. NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person. NAOMI SCOTT Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#... NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI JUDD NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL NAOMI CAMPBELL The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r... AL NAOMI The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi... AL NAOMI It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg... AL NAOMI I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s... AL NAOMI If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t... AL NAOMI We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct... AL NAOMI They did not contribute to the flooding of the city. AL NAOMI It's not a significant decrease but it's not rising any more. It will still take a while to get the ... AL NAOMI As I remember it, the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It... AL NAOMI As I remember it the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It ... AL NAOMI Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh... NAOMI WEISSTEIN The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield. NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI WOLF A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is real... NAOMI WEISSTEIN Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alte... NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be bl... NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI ALDERMAN NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradit... NAOMI GOODMAN The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral. NAOMI KLEIN A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made wi... NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI CAMPBELL My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Do... NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI WOLF NAOMI JUDD NAOMI WOLF NAOMI JUDD NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI WOLF NAOMI JUDD NAOMI CAMPBELL Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ag... NAOMI WATTS NAOMI JUDD Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get t... NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI CAMPBELL The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the inter... NAOMI KLEIN If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we ... NAOMI KLEIN A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to expla... NAOMI KLEIN Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at... NAOMI KLEIN When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali o... NAOMI WATTS I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all th... NAOMI KLEIN That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish ... NAOMI KLEIN NAOMI CAMPBELL
Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ... 
Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. ... 
We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled... 
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they we... 
Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sus... 
Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had se... 
The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried ... 
No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figure... 
The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder... 
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they ar... 
Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
I think that all of them must have lost their minds and have forgotten everything we were to each ot... 
They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they ... 
Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h... 
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dyi... 
Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th... 
You can't have that many turnovers in a big game like this. They had a couple too, but we couldn't t... 
Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes ... 
And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after ... 
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were al... 
They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river s... 
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer s... 
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show... 
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they t... 
Maybe this is kind of cliche, but animals, well, dogs, are what I do for a living. One reason I like... 
They were few, but they were hardened in fire. They had been cast out and many would hunger as he di... 
He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to ... 
The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe a... 
People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to... 
But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friend... 
She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their en... 
There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was... 
Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... 
He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were d... 
When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they w... 
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPE... 
You still felt that life was passing you by?
Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took ... 
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, ... 
Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could giv... 
So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twe... 
You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have... 
I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many t... 
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had lov... 
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea... 
That night at the hotel, in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door... 
The Father and His Sons
A father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselv... 
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in... 
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what i... 
In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sne... 
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for wom... 
I don't take vacations. 
Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems. 
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. 
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel... 
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent. 
Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can 