But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of t… - Naomi Novik

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But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.

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Naomi Novik is an American writer of speculative fiction, including the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons. She was a co-founder in 2007 of Archive of Our Own (AO3) an online archive of fan fiction.

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