Quotes From "What A Dragon Should Know" By G.A. Aiken

It wasn’t the first time he’d run for his life. And it most likely wouldnot be the last. In the past few decades, though, he’d mostly run fromangry fathers who’d found him where they felt he should not be. Or he’drun from town guards–sent by angry fathers who’d found him where theyfelt he should not be. G.A. Aiken

Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again."" You've never stopped loving yourself."" Because I'm amazing. G.A. Aiken

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression? G.A. Aiken

I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you. G.A. Aiken

Izzy. Sweet, beautiful, but eternally strange Izzy. G.A. Aiken

Go on, ” he offered magnanimously. “Feel free to piss on yourselves andcower helplessly.” Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him. G.A. Aiken

You want us to bargain with a lizard?”“ They’re not lizards, Father. They’re extraordinary creatures who werehere long before any human was crawling on this earth. They are warriorsand scholars and–”“ He has long hair like a woman, ” one of Sigmar’s sons blathered G.A. Aiken

And why does Father want me out there? You do know it’s a myth what they say about virgin sacrifices and dragons, yes?”“ Of course I know that, ” he snapped in such a way that Dagmar knewhe believed the myth to be true. “And after them three marriages, you ain’tmuch of a virgin yourself, now is ya?”“ Those last two barely counted. G.A. Aiken

As he wasforced to tell his father more than once, “I said I’d fight for my mother’sthrone. I never said I’d die for it.” Then he’d add, simply to annoy the oldbastard into one of his frothy temper tantrums, “Don’t you think I’m toopretty to die? G.A. Aiken