I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content.

Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

Black Powder War: A Novel of Temeraire (ed. Del Rey, 2006) - ISBN: 9780345493439

Naomi Novik Quotes

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away....

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away....

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away....

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away....