No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished (Heartstrikers, #3)

by Rachel Aaron

when you’re always playing twenty moves ahead, you can’t help but look insane to everyone who’s still trapped in the present.”

“It’s time to put your money where your mouth is, Julius. No good dragon goes unpunished.”

Assassination attempts aren’t a threat. They’re a compliment. They’re the final strike, the last desperate move when every other plot has failed.” Ian winked at him. “When they try to kill you, that’s when you know you’re winning.”

I am water, and change is water’s nature.”

but for all their power and age, none of these spirits or dragons seemed to grasp that power was fluid, and that it had nothing to do with age or magic or strength. When it came to making others do what you wanted, the only thing that counted was who had the upper hand, and so long as Marci had the potential to become the Merlin, that was her.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want.”

When you were mortal, this brief life was all you got. To have that stolen from you by a careless immortal who’d never understand what it meant to live and die was an injustice that demanded to be answered.

Young or old, big or small, a dragon with an all-consuming desire is the most dangerous enemy in the world.