Daughters of the Dragon (The Dragon #1)

by William Andrews

Mother used to say that dreams are who you are when you’re too tired to be yourself.

When they were together, she was like the earth, and Father was like the sky. Together, they were the whole world to me.

“It is your fear that will prevent you from becoming who you are meant to be.”

“That blossom started as a seed,” she continues. “It was buried deep in the cold, dark ground. One day when the soil was warm and moist, the little seed split apart and began to climb to a world it could not see. Imagine the courage it had! It did not know what it would find when it broke through the surface. The scorching sun? The gardener’s blade? The crushing hoof of a cow? But the seed courageously pushed on so that one day it could become a beautiful flower.” She points a finger at me. “You must have the courage of the seed, Anna. Without it, you will stay buried. You will rot and die. It does not matter how smart you are, or how pretty, or if you have money and many friends. If you do not have courage, you will never blossom into the flower you were meant to be.”

“If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.” —George Santayana