Quotes from book

The Dragon Queen

“And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men”

“Then he turned and walked away, and I gazed after him in sorrow. “Don’t look so, girl. He’s the first to fall at your feet; he will not be the last””

“Don’t flaunt your ignorance or try to insult me. I don’t suffer fools gladly and insults irritate me”

“For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time”

“till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams””

“I wish. I don’t know what I wish. That you were less I were more, perhaps. Yes, just possibly that’s it”

“I am no ordinary woman, and born to a different fate. I would not go whimpering.”

“He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside”

“Shes direct enough”

“till we meet again, my heart awaits you.”

“I apologize.”