The Dragon Waiting Quotes

“Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city -- a planet? -- by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes.

"It needs a title," Signorina Scala said.

Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun.

"It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis.”
― John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting

“Was it worth it, Peredur?” Richard said. “So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death?”
― John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting

“Someday we will be only spirit, and all one; but here on earth we're made of earth, and sometimes flesh must touch.”
― John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting

“What is life," Cynthia Ricci sang, eyes flooded and glowing, "but an improvisation to the music?”
― John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting

“Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.”
― John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting