#dragon

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on. ↗

— Naomi Novik

#dragons

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#dragons

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Ashley Madau

#dragon #dragons #mermaid-romance #mermaids #morningside

I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #wessa #will #will-herondale #will-s-dragon-tattoo

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. ↗

— Tori Amos

#calling #conductor #creature #dragon #entity

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#call #cover #dragons #enough #ethical

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bomb #button #dragon #man #poet

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

#cook #cookware #dragon #duke #five