#dragons

Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a caring, demure woman. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#traditional-female-roles #dragons

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#ruler #stupid #dragons

I desired dragons with a profound desire. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dragons

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#lisbeth-slander #mikael-blomkvist #dragons

But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked. "See you at the fireworks?" She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods. I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just...ask me out?" He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day." So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#capture-the-flag #charles-beckendorf #fireworks #percy-jackson #silena-beauregard

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

#dragons

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

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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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