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“Deryn had been there every step of the way.
鈥淲e are connected, aren鈥檛 we?鈥�
鈥淎ye,鈥� she said, still chewing. 鈥淎nd for us to meet at all, I had to pretend to be a boy. Fancy that.鈥�
鈥淏arking destiny,鈥� Bovril said, then burped.
Alek put his hands up in surrender. There were worse things than being connected to Deryn Sharp. In fact, the simple fact that she was smiling sent a wave of relief through him鈥攕he was his ally again, his friend. Providence seemed to be saying that she always would be.
All at once a fist around his heart loosened its grip.
鈥淚t was awful, being at war with you.鈥�
Deryn laughed. 鈥淚 missed you, too, daft prince.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship 鈥� one girl, really 鈥� had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city鈥檚 millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him.
Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne.
But every time one of them had fallen 鈥� in the snows of the Alps, in Istanbul, on the stormy topside, in that dusty canyon 鈥� the other had been there to pick them up. She couldn鈥檛 imagine Alek leaving her for some daft crown and scepter.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms.
鈥淒eryn鈥� he sobbed. Anything but this.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath