#dragons

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay ↗

— Brendan Carroll

#fairies #fantasy #magic #swords #templars

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea. Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me. We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#dreams #dreams

I would choose freedom over comfort every time. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asoiaf #val #freedom

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. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dark-humor #dragons #morality #humor

The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought he’d be too afraid But he loved her too much instead. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dragons #fantasy #love #lovers #poems

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. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#dragons #music

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. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #courage #depression #dragons #fears

Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai ↗

— Mar Mai

#dragon #dragons #fun #the-dragon-tutor #writing

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#between #conservatives #difference #dragons #dungeons

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

— Neil Gaiman

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