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.

“At worst, they were vile creatures who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth. At best, such behavior shows a dangerous lack of self-control. The first business of a warrior is self-restraint”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

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”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“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””

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“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”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Shes direct enough”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams”
The Dragon Queen

“I apologize.”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.”
The Dragon Queen