Dragons Quotes - Page 7

• Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Children, Past, Talking

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• Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

  Melanie Rawn

  Wagers

  Melanie Rawn (1991). “Stronghold”, p.295, Penguin

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• And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Mind, Red

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.513, Cambridge University Press

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• The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Powerful, Shoes, World

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• A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Army, Fire

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• What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Maps, Fantasy

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• Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Men, Shadow

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.504, Bantam

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• Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

  Richard Siken

  Hero, Bigs, Okay

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]

  Ilona Andrews

  Robbing, Walking

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.313, Penguin

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  Alan Moore

  Brother, Black, Owl

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy isn’t just the “bad guy” anymore, he’s the BAD GUY!

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Fun, Games, Guy

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• It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

  Lisa Unger

  Powerful, Children, Growing Up

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.54, Crown

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• If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.

  Ilona Andrews

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.128, Penguin

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• You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very hard not to blush. “How did that happen?” Will made an airy gesture with his hand. “I was drunk…” “Nonsense. You were never really drunk.” “On the contrary—in order to learn how to pretend to be inebriated, once must become inebriated at least once, as a reference point. Six-Fingered Nigel had been at the mulled cider—“ “You can’t mean there’s truly a Six-Fingered Nigel?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Mean, Thinking

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• But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Interesting, Personality, Reason

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.28, Penguin

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• She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

  Meg Cabot

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• You know that I love you." And despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true. The other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold. In the other mother's button eyes, Coraline knew that she was a possession, nothing more. A tolerated pet, whose behavior was no longer amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mother, Love You, Eye

  "Coraline". Book by Neil Gaiman, January 24, 2002.

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• All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Shadow, World

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.

  Ted Hughes

  Stars, Space, Peaceful

  Ted Hughes (2011). “The Iron Man”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Blood, Differences

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

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• There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

  Justina Chen

  Memories, Challenges, Gone

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• Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don’t have dragon wings, I don’t breathe fire, I’m only eight feet tall and I’ve never eaten a newborn that didn’t have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What’s yours?

  Derek Landy

  Feet, Fire, Eight

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• You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.

  George R. R. Martin

  Remember, Stealing

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.38, Bantam

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• Never tickle a sleeping dragon.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sleep, Harry Potter

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