Dragons Quotes - Page 10

• Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage that follows: "So," said Silas. "Now there are only three of us." "And a pig," said Kandar [the mummy] "Why?" Asked Miss Lupescu, with a wolf-tongue, through wolf teeth. "Why the Pig?" "It's lucky," said Kandar. Miss Lupescu growled, unconvinced. "Did Haroun have a pig?" asked Kandar, simply.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mirrors, Pigs, Missing

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• Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud. “What?” Piper asked. “Nothing,” he said. “Long night. I think I’m hallucinating. It’s cool.” Sitting in front, Leo couldn’t see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. “Just joking.” Leo decided it might be good to change the subject.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Thinking, Long

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• Hold up," Leo said. "You guys lost a dragon? A Real full size dragon?

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Guy, Size

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• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  Rachel Caine

  Summer, Teacher, Crazy

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• She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.

  Cornelia Funke

  Kings, Book, Hero

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think they are safe in this modern world of technology and weapons. Safe from all the ancient evils. They even believe that wizards, warriors, and dragons are long dead. They are fools clinging to their science and logic while thinking it will save them. (Thrylos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Warrior, Technology

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.1, Macmillan

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• The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

  Gregory Maguire

  Real, Evil, Secret

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• If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Horse, Kings, Golf

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

  Jim Butcher

  Baby, Angel, Kissing

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.42, Penguin

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• Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Writing, Joy

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• I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and starships, or a western about a gunslinger, or even literary fiction, and ultimately you're still writing about the human heart in conflict with itself.

  George R. R. Martin

  Taken, Writing, Heart

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• Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Easter, Home, Holiday

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• Tomorrow we go back to normal?" "Sure," Mab said. "It'll be like none of this happened. Except I'll still be pregnant, and you'll still be making dragons, and Glenda will still be pretending that Dreamland is Cancun, and Weaver will still own the only green velvet demon in captivity. Other than that, perfectly normal." "I just meant no demons trying to kill us," Cindy said. "My baseline for normal is a lot lower than yours.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Perfectly Normal, Trying, Captivity

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• If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.

  Yukio Mishima

  Loss, Dark, Clouds

  "Runaway Horses".

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• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Fighting, Expression

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Suicidal, Justice

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of the dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about the tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Lying, Believe

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• Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Watches, Littles

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.159, Penguin

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• You see, you don’t want me to love you. You want the version you’ve made up. The knight, even though I’m the dragon and I always will be.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Love You, Knights, Want

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• If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

  Marilyn Manson

  Loss, Games, Play

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Night, Rivers, Events

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

  Jodi Picoult

  Brother, Men, Mythical Creatures

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Air, Years

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

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• And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Years, Alive

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.816, Bantam

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• Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tattoo is on my arm... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tattoo, Father, Kids

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