Dragons quotes

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◆ Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

- Neil Gaiman100

◆ You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

- Chris d'Lacey99

◆ He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

- Dee Marie99

◆ I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

- Gary Gygax99

◆ Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

- Robin Hobb99

◆ Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

- Carole Wilkinson99

◆ They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.

- S.G. Rogers99

◆ Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Librarian, does it? And it has cut down on the number of interruptions. I used to get two or three knights a day, and now there's only about one a week. And the ones who do come are at least smart enough to figure out that I'm still a princess even if the dragons call me Chief Cook

- Patricia C. Wrede99

◆ Hurricanes couldn't remove you from my mind. You're my world and I'm incapable of not loving you.

- Billie-Jo Williams99

◆ Breathing in the scent of his hair,I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.

- Jodi Meadows99

◆ The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

- Mercedes Lackey99

◆ Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

- George R.R. Martin99