Quotes about dragon

A collection of quotes on the topic of dragon, likeness, doing, use.

Quotes about dragon

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Faith, Dreams

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

Love, Beauty, Courage, Waiting

“If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Life, Game, Loss

“After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end.
- Saphira”

Christopher Paolini book Eragon

Source: Eragon

Dead

“Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody, I have not once actually experienced friendship. I have only the most painful recollections of my various acquaintances with the exception of such companions in pleasure as Horiki. I have frantically played the clown in order to disentangle myself from these painful relationships, only to wear myself out as a result. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy. I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others. (I should add that I have very strong doubts as to whether even human beings really possess this faculty.) It was hardly to be expected that someone like myself could ever develop any close friends—besides, I lacked even the ability to pay visits. The front door of another person’s house terrified me more than the gate of Inferno in the Divine Comedy, and I am not exaggerating when I say that I really felt I could detect within the door the presence of a horrible dragon-like monster writhing there with a dank, raw smell.”

Osamu Dazai book No Longer Human

The Third Notebook: Part One
No Longer Human

Love, Pain, Friendship, People

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Variant: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Fight

“Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”

Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

Idea

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“HERE LIES BROM
Who was
A Rider bonded to the dragon Saphira
Son of Holcomb and Nelda
Beloved of Selena
Father of Eragon Shadeslayer
Founder of the Varden
And Bane of the Forsworn.
May his name live on in glory.
Stydja unin mo'ranr”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“Hold up," Leo said. "You guys lost a dragon? A Real full size dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Guy

“But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger”

Sharon M. Draper book Tears of a Tiger

Source: Tears of a Tiger

Love, Tear, Forgetting

“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”

George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author

“Anyone can slay a dragon… but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Love, World

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.”

Eloise Jarvis McGraw The Moorchild

Source: The Moorchild

Change

“When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.”

Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period

“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
To crawl in her own blood, and go scot-free.”

W.B. Yeats book The Tower

I, st. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

Sleep

“Why do dragons hoard gold? Because the things you most need is always to be found where you least want to look.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Slaying the Dragon Within Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjUkEj1O_0 <br class="br">Other

“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighbourhood, intruding into my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book On Fairy-Stories

On Fairy-Stories (1939)

World, Fear, Peace, Beauty

“The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,
And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,
He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,
And Custard gobbled him, every bit.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Many Long Years Ago (1945), The Tale of Custard the Dragon

“The eternal dragon is always giving our fallen down castles a rough time – always.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GPAl_q2QQ "Biblical Series III: God and the Hierarchy of Authority"

Time

“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book II, Chapter 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

Age, Past

“Dragon is the category of primate predator. Predator is a weird category, right? Because there's crocodiles in it, and then there's lions. And they don't have much in common except that they eat you. So it's a functional category. So the dragon is the imagistic representation of the functional category of predator. It's like this: If you're a monkey, then a bird will pick you off, like an eagle. That's the wings. If it wasn't an eagle, then it was a cat (dragon claws), because they climb trees and give you a good chomping. And if it wasn't a cat, then you go down to the ground and a snake would get you, or maybe the snake would climb up the tree. So a dragon is a cat-snake-bird. And that's the thing that you really want to avoid. An the other thing is that it breathes fire, which is interesting because fire was both greatest friend and greatest enemy of humanity.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Concepts

Cats, Bird, Tree

“The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident that it was Jesus who was made to fit their theology as Christos, and not their theology that was developed out of his sayings and doings. Their ancestors had maintained, before the Christian era, that the Great Serpent — Jupiter, the Dragon of Life, the Father and "Good Divinity," had glided into the couch of Semele, and now, the post-Christian Gnostics, with a very trifling change, applied the same fable to the man Jesus, and asserted that the same "Good Divinity," Saturn (Ilda-Baoth), had, in the shape of the Dragon of Life, glided over the cradle of the infant Mary.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled

Source: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X

Life, Change

“It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

Unfaithfulness, Disease, Imagination

“Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,
And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink,
And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,
But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Many Long Years Ago (1945), The Tale of Custard the Dragon

Dogs

“The teachings of the Zend Avesta are in accordance with the doctrinal principles contained in the Egyptian book of the dead, and contain the Christ-principle. The Illiad of Homer, the Hebrew Bible, the Germanic Edda and the Sibylline Books of the Romans contain the same Christ-principle. All these are sufficient in order to demonstrate that Christ is anterior to Jesus of Nazareth. Christ is not one individual alone. Christ is a cosmic principle that we must assimilate within our own physical, psychic, somatic and spiritual nature… Among the Persians, Christ is Ormuz, Ahura Mazda, terrible enemy of Ahriman (Satan), which we carry within us. Amongst the Hindus, Krishna is Christ; thus, the gospel of Krishna is very similar to that of Jesus of Nazareth. Among the Egyptians, Christ is Osiris and whosoever incarnated him was in fact an Osirified One. Amongst the Chinese, the Cosmic Christ is Fu Hi, who composed the I-Ching (The Book of Laws) and who nominated Dragon Ministers. Among the Greeks, Christ is called Zeus, Jupiter, the Father of the Gods. Among the Aztecs, Christ is Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican Christ. In the Germanic Edda, Baldur is the Christ who was assassinated by Hodur, God of War, with an arrow made from a twig of mistletoe, etc. In like manner, we can cite the Cosmic Christ within thousands of ancient texts and old traditions which hail from millions of years before Jesus. The whole of this invites us to embrace that Christ is a cosmic principle contained within the essential principles of all religions.”

Samael Aun Weor book The Perfect Matrimony

The Perfect Matrimony

God, War, Books, Religion

“The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

Source: Terre des Hommes (1939), Ch. I : The Craft
Context: I had a vision of the face of destiny.
Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. You are a petty bourgeois of Toulouse. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
The squall has ceased to be a cause of my complaint. The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars.

World, Star, Reading, Night

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

"The Idea of Righteousness"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)
Context: With our present industrial technique we can, if we choose, provide a tolerable subsistence for everybody. We could also secure that the world's population should be stationary if we were not prevented by the political influence of churches which prefer war, pestilence, and famine to contraception. The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific co-operation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Age, Religion

“There are legends of the metamorphosis of men: with you the gods also are metamorphosed. Rhea becomes a tree; Zeus a dragon, on account of Persephone; the sisters of Phaethon are changed into poplars, and Leto into a bird of little value, on whose account what is now Delos was called Ortygia. A god, forsooth, becomes a swan, or takes the form of an eagle, and, making Ganymede his cupbearer, glories in a vile affection. How can I reverence gods who are eager for presents, and angry if they do not receive them? Let them have their Fate!”

Tatian (120–180) Syrian writer

Ante-Nicene Christian library: v. 3 p. 15
Address to the Greeks

God, Tree, Fate, Making love

“I am absolutely dumbfounded
by people
who feel they can spew out hatred and negativity like a violently sick Dragon…
but do not think of Retribution
nor the black soot that their filthy Karma is heavy with.
Karma is a real true Bitch!
She always comes to pay you a visit
when you least expect it.
I count on it…
because I work so hard to keep my side of the street clean.
The evil shan't ever win.
I'll stand there while you are burned to a crisp before me.
Good always prevails
in the End.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Bitch, Thinking, People, Evil

“Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

Dogs, Feeling, Lovers

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer

Love, Jealousy

“I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!”

Georgette Heyer book Cotillion

Source: Cotillion

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

Hell

“I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady. I'll prove myself. You'll be proud of me.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Variant: And in the mean time I'll fight dragons, just like any knight for his lady.
Source: Night World, No. 1

Fight

“I wish people had half the honor of dragons.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

People

“Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for."
I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?"
"I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Source: Lord of Chaos

“I am the dragon, and you call me insane.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“Dragons and legends… It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

Fight

“Happy the Dragon was not so happy.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Happiness

“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Source: Catholic Tales and Christian Songs

Death

“… When it was finished, the scaled dragon looked around and as the thing spotted V, a growl rippled up to the bleachers, then ended in a snort. "You finished, big guy?" Va called down. "FYI, goalpost over there would work righteous as a toothpick.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Guy

“I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don’t slay me with your magic sword!”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.”

Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)

Source: The Night Country

Change

“Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”

China Miéville (1972) English writer

Children, People, Books, Reading

“Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”

Steven Brust book Jhereg

Source: Jhereg

“The Dragon hissed under his breath with annoyance: how dare a chimaera inconvenience him, coming out of season.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

Season

“Rhage! You have a dragon! A pet dragon! I got to rub his tummy!”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: The Beast

“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Variant: Be kind to dragonswans, for thou art gorgeous when naked and taste good with cool whip. (Channon)
Source: Dragonswan

Art

“I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Fate's Edge

Dreams

“Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?'
'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.'
'But it's a dragon!”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Life

“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Book of Imaginary Beings

Universe

“you know festus means happy in Latin right? You want us to go save the world on Happy the dragon?"
-Jason to Leo in the lost hero”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

World, Happiness

“All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

World, Memory

“The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?”

Cressida Cowell book How to Be a Pirate

Source: How to Be a Pirate

Men, Past

“… A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival…(Here be Dragons)”

Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist

Pain, Past

“What do you know about dragons?”
“They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.”
His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: You Slay Me

“GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!"
Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful… thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?”

Cressida Cowell book How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Source: How to Break a Dragon's Heart

Help, Parting

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

Age

“To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs…”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Holly is alive,' thought Foaly
'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Princess

“It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there”

Naomi Novik book His Majesty's Dragon

Source: His Majesty's Dragon

Law, Thinking, Reading

“I have an idea," Simon said. "Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?"

"Vividly," Jace said. "It was a dark time.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons?
Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Idea, Time

“One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Destiny

Source: Ship of Destiny

Soul

“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly”

Steven Erikson book The Crippled God

Source: The Crippled God

Suicide

“You want us to fly off to save the world on Happy The Dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

World, Flying, Happiness

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

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Fairytale, Fight, Happiness

“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Men

“Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Tattoo

“Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.”
~ A thought by Lessa ~”

Anne McCaffrey book Dragonflight

Source: Dragonflight

“I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Thinking, Fight, Happiness

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock

Understanding, Personality

“How much can a dragon carry?
As much as it thinks it can”

Anne McCaffrey (1926–2011) American-Irish novelist

Thinking

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

Cressida Cowell (1966) British writer

Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons

Age

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”

Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

Sleep, Silence, Evil, Heart

“Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.
-You're just making that up, Jean.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Women

“I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

Nature, Drawing, Wealth

“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

Fear, Dreams, Home

“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time….
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Dreams, Way, Time, Princess

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Quest

Source: Assassin's Quest

Feeling, Change

“All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon”

Diane Duane book The Wizard's Dilemma

Source: The Wizard's Dilemma

Drawing

“She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

Feeling

“The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Feeling, Problem

“You stood up to the dragon so Beckendorf would have his chance to jump - nowwas brave."
"Or pretty stupid."
"Percy, you're a brave guy," she said. "Just take the compliment. I swear, is it so hard?”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Stupidity, Guy, Chance

“On it!” Hazel said. “Go, Frank!” Dragon Frank veered to the left with Annabeth in one claw yelling, “Let’s get ’em!” and Percy in the other claw screaming, “I hate flying!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Hate, Flying

“the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Princess

“Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
Source: The Lost Hero

World, Happiness

“But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

People

“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being… They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”

Janette Oke (1935) Canadian writer

Source: Love Comes Softly

Books, Dreams, Reading

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker