dragons

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8e41a34	Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.	fairy-tales books inspirational paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton dragons	Neil Gaiman
c38fe6b	How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us	courage depression poetry sadness change strength inspirational attitude weakness helplessness dragons fears transformation	Rainer Maria Rilke
c30d5e4	Eragon asked.	fantasy dragons brightscales dragon-riders shurtugal saphira eragon	Christopher Paolini
ea2cbd8	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.	fairy-tales inspirational bogeyman dragons dragon	G.K. Chesterton
5d6ff12	And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.	sunset dragons reminiscence	Ursula K. Le Guin
75d062a	Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.	dragons	Christine Feehan
1fc1d3b	As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.	dragons	George R.R. Martin
74459f8	She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.	death fantasy dreams dance-with-dragons high-fantasy other song-of-ice-and-fire melisandre wolves epic-fantasy dragons lions series	George R.R. Martin
0d91ffd	"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."	dance courage funny humor small martin prove soiaf tyrion duck dragons kill	George R.R. Martin
56df5da	You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape - the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes - we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.	morality dragons dark-humor	Terry Pratchett
71fa970	A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.	hippogriffs chesterton dragons	G.K. Chesterton
9d445c6	Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.	fear dragons	George R.R. Martin
f896dac	And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.	reading books interest dragons	Terry Pratchett
e164143	I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.	terry-pratchett fantasy sword-and-sorcery bookshops dragons	Sully Tarnish
e2b4af0	"He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement. "Why should he be?" Kazul said.	humor dragons	Patricia C. Wrede
0bb1085	Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.	humor jamese-mallory location-6262 page-344 the-phoenix-unchained mercedes-lackey dragons gossip	Mercedes Lackey
3918a98	Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.	dragons	J.R.R. Tolkien
c553aa1	"And not only the world but humanity itself does need dragons" "And why is that?" Chade demanded disdainfully. "To keep the balance," the Fool replied. He glanced over me, and then past me, out of the window and his eyes went far and pensive. "Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove, you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today, but what might grow tomorrow, to do with as you please. Then, in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face." "And I suppose dragons are better than we are because they don't do such things, because they simply take whatever they see. Free spirits, nature's creatures, possessing all the moral loftiness that comes from not being able to think." The Fool shook his head, smiling. "No. Dragons are no better than humans. They are little different at all from men. They will hold up a mirror to humanity's selfishness. They will remind you that all your talk of owning this and claiming that is no more than the snarling of a chained dog or a sparrow's challenge song. The reality of those claims lasts but for the instant of its sounding. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to."	humanity fantasy fitzchivalry-farseer the-fool dragons fool	Robin Hobb
c04d037	"The wise man," the dragon rumbled, "does not play games with dragons."	fantasy banewreaker jacqueline-carey the-sundering high-fantasy wise dragons dragon	Jacqueline Carey
19ebe49	The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.	nature sky dragons	Keri Hulme
54085f6	"Adamant was clearly not long on tact. Periapt had tried to be diplomatic and Adam had blundered right into what could have been an uncomfortable moment. But the girl in question just laughed and the awkwardness passed. For a moment Andie sobered. Because the way that Adam had so bluntly blurted "Like eat her," reminded her that these were 'dragons' after all, and there were as many "bad" dragons as "good" dragons. And, yes, if the compulsion had been strong enough, they would have eaten the maidens. They would have felt dreadful afterward, but- But they 'were' dragons. This was what dragons sometimes did. She had to chuckle a second time, because after so short a time with them, the two were now "Peri" and "Adam" in her mind, and they already showed distinct personalities." --	different-personalities periapt dragons brothers	Mercedes Lackey
5aae7dc	Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.	character-harrier character-kareta james-mallory location-2757 mercedes-lackey the-phoenix-endangered dragons	Mercedes Lackey
6f49b65	"Roman blinked again and smacked Aspid's nose with his hand. "What did I say about kisses? No kisses unless invited." Aspid's tongue contracted. He pulled Roman into his mouth. I sprinted. "Yes, I love you, too," Roman said from inside the forest of teeth. "I need to go now. Come on." The dragon opened his mouth and put Roman back into the mud."	priests dragons	Ilona Andrews
5c8e843	Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon! Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.	dragons	eric flint

8e41a34

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

fairy-tales books inspirational paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton dragons

Neil Gaiman

c38fe6b

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us

courage depression poetry sadness change strength inspirational attitude weakness helplessness dragons fears transformation

Rainer Maria Rilke

c30d5e4

Eragon asked.

fantasy dragons brightscales dragon-riders shurtugal saphira eragon

Christopher Paolini

ea2cbd8

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.

fairy-tales inspirational bogeyman dragons dragon

G.K. Chesterton

5d6ff12

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

sunset dragons reminiscence

Ursula K. Le Guin

75d062a

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

dragons

Christine Feehan

1fc1d3b

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

dragons

George R.R. Martin

74459f8

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

death fantasy dreams dance-with-dragons high-fantasy other song-of-ice-and-fire melisandre wolves epic-fantasy dragons lions series

George R.R. Martin

0d91ffd

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

dance courage funny humor small martin prove soiaf tyrion duck dragons kill

George R.R. Martin

56df5da

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape - the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes - we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

morality dragons dark-humor

Terry Pratchett

71fa970

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

hippogriffs chesterton dragons

G.K. Chesterton

9d445c6

Slowly the shapes around her took on form. Huge empty eyes stared at her hungrily through the gloom, and dimly she saw the jagged shadows of long teeth. She had lost the count. She closed her eyes and bit her lip and sent the fear away. When she looked again, the monsters would be gone. Would never have been. She pretended that Syrio was beside her in the dark, whispering in her ear. Calm as still water, she told herself. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. She opened her eyes again. The monsters were still there, but the fear was gone.

fear dragons

George R.R. Martin

f896dac

And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.

reading books interest dragons

Terry Pratchett

e164143

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

terry-pratchett fantasy sword-and-sorcery bookshops dragons

Sully Tarnish

e2b4af0

"He doesn't seem very impressed," Cimorene commented in some amusement. "Why should he be?" Kazul said.

humor dragons

Patricia C. Wrede

0bb1085

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

humor jamese-mallory location-6262 page-344 the-phoenix-unchained mercedes-lackey dragons gossip

Mercedes Lackey

3918a98

Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

dragons

J.R.R. Tolkien

c553aa1

"And not only the world but humanity itself does need dragons" "And why is that?" Chade demanded disdainfully. "To keep the balance," the Fool replied. He glanced over me, and then past me, out of the window and his eyes went far and pensive. "Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove, you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today, but what might grow tomorrow, to do with as you please. Then, in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face." "And I suppose dragons are better than we are because they don't do such things, because they simply take whatever they see. Free spirits, nature's creatures, possessing all the moral loftiness that comes from not being able to think." The Fool shook his head, smiling. "No. Dragons are no better than humans. They are little different at all from men. They will hold up a mirror to humanity's selfishness. They will remind you that all your talk of owning this and claiming that is no more than the snarling of a chained dog or a sparrow's challenge song. The reality of those claims lasts but for the instant of its sounding. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to."

humanity fantasy fitzchivalry-farseer the-fool dragons fool

Robin Hobb

c04d037

"The wise man," the dragon rumbled, "does not play games with dragons."

fantasy banewreaker jacqueline-carey the-sundering high-fantasy wise dragons dragon

Jacqueline Carey

19ebe49

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.

nature sky dragons

Keri Hulme

54085f6

"Adamant was clearly not long on tact. Periapt had tried to be diplomatic and Adam had blundered right into what could have been an uncomfortable moment. But the girl in question just laughed and the awkwardness passed. For a moment Andie sobered. Because the way that Adam had so bluntly blurted "Like eat her," reminded her that these were 'dragons' after all, and there were as many "bad" dragons as "good" dragons. And, yes, if the compulsion had been strong enough, they would have eaten the maidens. They would have felt dreadful afterward, but- But they 'were' dragons. This was what dragons sometimes did. She had to chuckle a second time, because after so short a time with them, the two were now "Peri" and "Adam" in her mind, and they already showed distinct personalities." --

different-personalities periapt dragons brothers

Mercedes Lackey

5aae7dc

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

character-harrier character-kareta james-mallory location-2757 mercedes-lackey the-phoenix-endangered dragons

Mercedes Lackey

6f49b65

"Roman blinked again and smacked Aspid's nose with his hand. "What did I say about kisses? No kisses unless invited." Aspid's tongue contracted. He pulled Roman into his mouth. I sprinted. "Yes, I love you, too," Roman said from inside the forest of teeth. "I need to go now. Come on." The dragon opened his mouth and put Roman back into the mud."

priests dragons

Ilona Andrews

5c8e843

Screw it. Bring on that sorry dragon! Comes down to it, I'll bet Hrundig knows a recipe for cooking the mangy beasts.

dragons

eric flint