Quotes from book
The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen
Alice Borchardt

The Dragon Queen is a 2001 fantasy novel by Alice Borchardt based on the legend of King Arthur. The story is set in the Dark Ages and follows a young girl called Guinevere who has inherited magical powers.

“He was conscious that something in [his] personality bolstered his confidence and allowed him to rest, to seek peace and find it. He never game a name to it, and never spoke of it. And never, never would he have allowed himself or anyone to call it – love”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Love is important, and woman being shrewd bargainers probably know fame is not worth much. I’d much rather have something I can spend, eat, or love, thank you very much”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place””

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“He said truth has a taste, and this had the taste of truth. A wolf would put it that way, but I agree it does. Some things just don’t hang together, but others do. And a lot of times when you encounter it, you say, “I don’t want this to be right, but it probably is, even though it brings me to grief.””

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“I saw he was now and always would be his own man”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“some men know from birth that they are expendable… they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“God, to breathe. Air. You don’t know what it means until you cannot take a breath”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“for when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever brought me more sorrow or pain or joy than he did. No, nothing, not even my sons, has ever outweighed the love I feel and still feel for him. And I believe – had I known what the future held for us: all the trouble, torment, battle, and grief of our lives – I still believe that I would have yielded my heart into his keeping as I did then”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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