#dragons

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

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#big house #dragons #fort #house #i

The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation. ↗

— Naomi Novik

#humourous-situations #funny

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#brave #dragons #lives #once #only

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. ↗

— Cressida Cowell

#age

I would choose freedom over comfort every time. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asoiaf #val #freedom

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dark-humor #dragons #morality #humor

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#cersei-lannister #greed #love #power #tyrion-lannister

The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought he’d be too afraid But he loved her too much instead. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dragons #fantasy #love #lovers #poems

Sometimes, in the still watches of the night, when he lies in bed beside her, Tanis will find himself thinking of me. He will remember my last words, he will be touched by them. I have given them their happiness. And she must live with the knowledge that I will live always in Tanis’s heart. What love they might find together, I have poisoned. My revenge upon them both is complete. Now, have you brought what I sent you for? ↗

— Margaret Weis

#love