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A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.
Your mind already knows the answer, so just calm down and let it remember.
You want a dragon? Earn one.”
Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.
For menders are rare, and the wounded are not.
A slow smile spreads across my face. I know how to survive.
Coming in last is better than coming in dead.
Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
“The right way isn’t the only way.
“You’re making us look bad. Stop it.”
“They’re accommodations for me. I’ve seen your memories. I’m not about to have you sticking daggers into my leg to climb up. Now let’s go.”
“Dragons pay no heed to your puny gods.”
“Justice is not always merciful.”
“She’s ready,” he agrees.
You’re not anything that needs to be fixed.
Eventually those closest to us become our enemies in some way, even if it’s through well-intentioned love or apathy, or if we live long enough to become their villains.
“Chocolate cake. Stop being weird.”
“When did I ever give you the impression that I give a fuck what people think about me?”
“Go lead your wing—or do whatever it is you do.”
I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.
I’m a broken music box, repeating the same melody over and over, and everyone can see me.
Whatever you feel is natural. Allow yourself to feel it but then let it go.
There is nothing wrong with you.
The clock stops ticking.
It only takes one desperate generation to change history—even erase it.
There’s more than one way to fall.
Be brave.
“Yeah, let’s go for three.”
Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”
“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
We can live as cowards or die as riders.
“I will bet my life on you as I have from the first day,”
“Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”