Skysworn (Cradle, #4)

by Will Wight

if I saw you on fire I'd hold an umbrella for you so the rain didn't put you out.”

“Don't think,” she warned him. “After an injury like this, it is your thoughts that are most deadly. Your fears, your pain, your despair, they are deadly poison. Do not let them rule you.”

“Desperate men cannot see beyond their own desperation,”

Sha Miara the Queen of the Ninecloud Court, Northstrider the dragon-eater, and the Eight-Man Empire.

There was nothing Lindon could say to help her. The past had already left its wounds.

"He is looking to stand out by provoking one of the Empire's villains in front of everyone," the turtle said, not bothering to keep his voice down. Everyone heard. "He is not confident enough in his results to let them speak for him, so he has to distinguish himself in another way. He is the weakest sort of scavenger, crawling along the bottom and looking for scraps. Crush him." The

"When a horse carries a man, which of them is the stronger party? It is only suitable that a dragon should carry lesser creatures."