#dragon

He couldn't take his eye off that dragon There was something odd about the swaying of his tail ...he watched his curved and voluptuous reptilian legs move with grace... ...its stare was docile and...loving... He wanted that creature He wanted him all to himself He slapped his forehead, "Get ahold of yourself, George. It's a dragon!" He couldn't hold himself He followed the dragon-shifter into its cave From Lonely George and the Dragon God, a standalone story deriving from the universe built in Dragons and Cicadas. ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#dragons-and-cicadas #romance #romance-love #space-dragons #love

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened. ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#prostitution #society-on-da-run #money

Never laugh at live dragons. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#wisdom #wisdom

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#the-hobbit #resistance

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #courage #depression #dragons #fears

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#george-r-r-martin #humour #sci-fi #tyrion-lannister #sci-fi

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#dragons

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dragons

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. ↗