Quotes about dragon

Rob May - Dragon Killer

Words are just words a book never harmed anyone by itself.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

Megan Derr - Treasure

I am naked, wrapped up in a dragon that should be a prince, I don't know how much of my crew is dead, and those mermaids could return at any time. Would somebody please say something that makes sense?

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

Billie-Jo Williams -

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

Emme Rollins -

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…

Yasmine Galenorn - Witchling

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth,Comes the speaker of the shrouds,Suck in the spirit, speak the words,Let secrets of the dead be heard.

Criss Jami - Venus in Arms

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

Donita K. Paul - DragonKnight

There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.

H. Leighton Dickson - Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

We didn’t have words. We didn’t have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous.

Rachel L. Schade - Forsaken Kingdom

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

Richard Due - The Moon Coin

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

Richard Due - The Moon Coin

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

Richard Due - The Moon Coin

Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

Cyci Cade - The boys and the dragon

Jin Quan laughed. Samantha laughed too trying to find her lost dignity

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Emerald Hunt

Max, you cannot stay in the background forever. It is time to stand out in front. You have all that you need.” Analea

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Onyx Eyes

Little boys jump, but they do not know where. Into the mouth of the demon lair. Hold still and you will see, in his hand is the key. Fire and brimstone. Brimstone and fire. Your ally is clever. a thief and a liar. All is not lost. You can turn it around. But, for a moment...all will be well.....peaceful and sound." Alice.

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Blood Diamond

You’re such a little moron, aren’t you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It’s nothing personal, just business. It’s all about survival, dear boy." Drusilla Blackwood

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Blood Diamond

Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Blood Diamond

If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes...." Alice

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Emerald Hunt

You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe.” Analea

Kathy Cyr - Max Hamby and the Emerald Hunt

Let me out, witch," growled Alice. She began to hum off key.Griselda stepped away from the door."I can help the little wee babes," Alice sung sweetly. "Through the woods and into the dark. Where he whispers the words to make his mark. Little boy of green..." Alice chuckled. "...has gone to the wizard who is evil and mean.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

Sydney Marie Hughes -

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

Tom Simon -

Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that’s right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon’s opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

Billie-Jo Williams - The Book of Conflict

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

Becca Mann -

Never scheme with a conniving dragon!

Lou Anders - Frostborn

You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon

Kathryn Fogleman - Tales of the Wovlen: The Dragon' Son

Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe.

Kathryn Fogleman - Tales of the Wovlen: The Dragons Son

Keegan opened his eyes and gasped in awe when he saw his gift. In his hand was a beautiful silver ring. It had a bright, shining ruby embedded in the center, and two golden dragons on either side of the ruby seemed to be caressing it, making it the most stunning ring Keegan had ever seen.

Tad Williams -

Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so.

Billie-Jo Williams - The Book of Redemption

A wounded animal yet bears teeth

Billie-Jo Williams - The Book of Wrath

There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

Richard Due - The Moon Coin

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

Richard Due - The Moon Coin

But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

Don A. Martinez - Dinétah Dragon

As Ariel recounted the events of her dream, two magnificent, batlike wings grew from the backs of her shoulders, stretched as if preparing to fly, then retreated back into their host. The sound heard when the wings disappear is the giggling of Alanna, who watched the event much the same way I did, in rapt wonder.

Jess C. Scott - Dragon Poems

The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragon’s headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought he’d be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead.

R.A. Salvatore - Streams of Silver

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

Mar Mai - The Dragon Tutor

Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Paula Quinn ~ Ember -

His every movement was laced with a lethal combination of grace and strength, a lord among mere mortals. He was confident, arrogant, composed and unfazed by her best efforts to beguile him.

Paula Quinn - Scorched

If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them.

Jodie B. Cooper - Forbidden Temptation of a Vampire

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.

P.C. Cast - Dragon's Oath

You make me sound like an arrogant ass," he said."Are you?""No! I'm just me.

Natsuki Takaya -

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem.Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. Shigure Sohma: Hmmm What's this Hatori I don't think I ever heard you sound so eager to come over. Could it be you have a secret crush on Tohru [long silence from the other end of the phone]Shigure Sohma: [shouts] I knew it You naughty naughty man you Hatori Sohma: No I was simply too amazed by your s

Donita K. Paul - DragonQuest

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

Books are the only things worth stealing.

Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing knights all over the place, and devouring damsels, and going on generally- whereas I liked to get my meals regular and then to prop my back against a bit of rock and snooze a bit, and wake up and think of things going on and how they kept going on just the same, you know!

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

If I could have one friend,just one in all the world,I know that I would not seek outa boy or pretty girl.The friend I’d dare to chooseto stand by me each daywould be a dragon fierce enoughto scare the world away.

Ted Hughes - The Iron Man

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: "It just came over me. I don't know why. It just came over me, listening to the battling shouts and the war-cries of the earth - I got excited, I wanted to join in.

Cass Ark Galleas - About Myself

You're not winged because you are flying on a dragon

Evgeny Shvarts - Дракон. Клад. Тень. Два клена. Обыкновенное чудо и другие произведения

Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.

Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

Khang Kijarro Nguyen -

Stress is a dragon.Believe in it and you’re toast.Slay your stress.

Robin Hobb - Fool's Assassin

If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

Patricia Briggs - Dragon Bones

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

Kehinde Sonola -

I am The Dragon And I have come!

G.A. Aiken - Dragon Actually

she lived her life as a dragon and never understood those who didn’t. Why anyone would want to be human was beyond her understanding... And damn it all, she was brilliant!

Julia Suzuki - Yoshiko and the Gift of Charms

I told you it would be difficult! If I were you I would just not bother trying these tasks! They are great challenges, clearly too great for you.” said Guya, but there was a certain sparkle in his eye as he said it. “I shall complete your tasks, ” said Yoshiko firmly. “And I’ll be back sooner than you think!” With that he spread his wings to head for Fire School. “Oh and one more thing Guya” Yoshiko added. Perhaps when I return you will be so kind as to stop calling me a little dragon!” As Yoshi

Stephen Noce - Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight

Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)

Fredrik Backman - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight.

G.A. Aiken - Dragon Actually

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.

John Gardner - Grendel

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

Sully Tarnish - The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God.

Eric Hoffer - Reflections on the Human Condition

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.Nature has no compassion. It is, in the words of William Blake, "a creation that groans, living on the death; where fish

Liz Braswell - Once Upon a Dream

Her eyes were full of hate. Full. And... at the same time, empty. Soulless. Like those horrible creatures she keeps around her. The dragon was frightening... but Maleficent, she was bone-chilling.

Ashley Madau -

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

Peter Yarrow - The Magic Dragon

Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Two Sisters

You know the story.” The Nalnom rotated his hand in the air as if she should recall it. “I don’t. I’ve never heard the story.” Joshlon summarized it for her. “Prometheus was turned into a dragon by his angry lover, Naradite. She refused to turn him back into his manly form. He became the first fire-breathing dragon—Naga the Terrible.” Eena dropped her lower jaw. “What?” “Naradite turned Prometheus into a dragon,” Joshlon repeated. “Naga.” “And Prometheus is Edgar’s father?” She was sure the surr

Jack Campbell - The Hidden Masters of Marandur

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

Try not to be too stupid, will you?"That sounded like some great advice...

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

She asked, "Is there anything I can do to help?"He buried his nose in her hair, took a deep breath and sighed. "You help just be being here.""Well, that bit is easy," she told him with a smile. "Because I wouldn't be anywhere else.

C.N. Faust - The Dragon's Disciples

I can taste fear, and lies, on a man's skin, Cavrax." The Master Priest whispered, watching the large pulse on the cleric's neck beat like a caged thing begging for release. "You're lying to me.

C.N. Faust - The Dragon's Disciples

Traveled so far, and not yet have they come across anything of interest, he mused, except, of course, for that nest of goblins I managed to stir up. Indeed, his brother had always been a valiant fool; why not give him some excitement?He always did possess a love for a good fight, and who am I to deny him?The glass sphere, responding to his thoughts, zoomed in on the mountain nearby where Shrukian camped, and by putting both his hands on the sphere's sides and closing his eyes, Pharun could all b

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime okay, but not quite.

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

Suddenly, she burst out, "I want to punch her evil, lying face."Liam caught a flash of hot gold as Dad looked at them, narrow-eyed, in the rearview mirror. Dad said, completely seriously, "I can make that happen.

Thea Harrison - Peanut Goes to School

That night he ate so much spaghetti, Mom said he was in danger of turning into a big noodle, which made him laugh so hard, he fell out of his chair.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?

Django Wexler - The Mad Apprentice

But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.

Havelock Ellis -

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Margaret Hodges - Saint George and the Dragon

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

Diane Duane - The Wizard's Dilemma

All the drawing lacksis the final touch: To addeyes to the dragon

Rhiannon Thomas - A Wicked Thing

Burn them all, little dragon.

Erika Gardner - The Dragon in the Garden

A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened

David Gaider - The Stolen Throne

Loghain shook his head in disbelief. "Maker's breath, man, aren't you suppose to have some dignity? Somewhere?""Me? Dignity?""Being the supposed future King and such.""I think Rowan took my dignity."She snorted derisively, folding her arms. "There was nothing else worth having.

Jessica Fortunato - The Sin Collector

Your cell phone is on the nightstand. Call me immediately if something changes. I don’t care if you are merely dizzy or if you start seeing pink dragons, do you understand?” I solemnly swear I will call you the second a pink dragon shows up.

Christopher Paolini - Eragon

Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal."Eragon.""Is that all you can say?" he snapped."Yes."His eyes widened at the unexpected reply, and he sat down ro

E.E. Knight - Dragon Avenger

Daughter, daughter, shining brightPrecious jewel within mine sightOh, if I could soar with theeAs you seek your destiny.To see with you the caves and skiesVistas grand beneath your eyesTaking wing to horizons newLet us wonder who waits for you.A dragon bright?A dragon dark?Victor of duels with battle mark?A dragon strong?A dragon keen?Singer of honors and triumphs seen?Red, Gold, Bronze, and BlueTo your lord you shall be true,Copper, Silver, Black, and White,Who will win your mating flight?For i

Maeve Greyson - My Tempting Highlander

What a trio we are: wolf, dragon and . . .” Ronan bit back the word. Shifter. He sat straighter in the saddle, raising one hand in farewell as his mount broke through the last of the boundary mists. “May the gods favor us this time, my friend. Pray Mairi Sinclair is the one.

Julie Kagawa - Soldier

I couldn’t,” he finally whispered. “You were the one who taught me to live, to take chances. For a while, I convinced myself that we were too different, and that it was better to let you go. But now, I’ve come to the realization that my life is probably going to be very short. And I want to spend it doing something that matters. With someone that matters. I don’t want to regret that I gave up without a fight.

Thea Harrison - Dragos Takes a Holiday

Mommy set the phone aside as Liam whined and plucked at her shirt. “Are you hungry?” she asked gently. He nodded. “I can’t nurse you when you’re like this, sweetheart, not with all of those razor-sharp teeth.”That was the saddest thing he had ever heard in his whole life. He lifted his head and looked at her, grief stricken.

William Ritter - Beastly Bones

Oh no. He looks half-dead." Charlie's face paled as he eyed the trapper's wrist and the blood-soaked bandages."Indeed." Jackaby nodded. "And if we don't get him some proper attention soon, he'll be all dead.

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