A Language of Dragons Quotes

“People shouldn’t fear their prime ministers. Prime ministers should fear their people.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Sometimes I wake up in the night and it’s there, beside me in bed, the guilt. Like a dark void waiting to suck me in.’

Atlas takes my hand. ‘Then tell it to go away,’ he whispers fiercely. He presses his lips to my ear. ‘Banish it, like a dragon banishes the dark.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Swallows were originally dragons who could speak every language in the world. But it weighed on them, being able to empathise with the stories of so many.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“that when you oppress a community for centuries you can’t exactly be surprised when it rises up against you.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Peace isn’t peace if it’s only given to some,” Marquis says. “And I know you know it.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“El aprendizaje de idiomas —y la traducción en particular— tiene que ver con dar voz a la gente, a especies y a países, abriéndolos al mundo. No aprender más que lenguas humanas sería encerrarnos en nosotros mismos, sería como borrar a los dragones y su historia de la faz de la Tierra.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“To control languages, to control words, is to control what people know.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“People shouldn't fear their prime ministers, Wyvernmire," I say slowly. "Prime ministers should fear their people.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“my mind settles on one word. Mengkhenyass.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“—La paz no es paz si solo la disfrutan unos cuantos —dice Marquis.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Dragons’ understanding of each other, the calls they use to communicate, depend entirely on their bond.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“The many versions of echolocation we heard through the loquisonus machine weren’t different branches of one universal language, weren’t dialects. They were simply the conversion of varying levels of emotion into sound.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Remissio dolor redemptus est,” Chumana says. “Forgiveness is suffering redeemed.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Peace isn’t peace if it’s only given to some,”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Bilingual education must be abolished in order to rapidly curb unpatriotic influences.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Swallows were originally dragons who could speak every language in the world. But it weighed on them, being able to empathize with the stories of so many.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“And it’s only now, when the study of dragon tongues is being banned for the Second Class, for people like me, that I care.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“I’m saying,” Atlas says pointedly, “that when you oppress a community for centuries you can’t exactly be surprised when it rises up against you.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Swallows were originally dragons who could speak every language in the world. But it weighed on them, being able to empathize with the stories of so many, so they asked God to relieve their burden and make them light and carefree. He turned them into birds and gave them tails forked like a dragon’s tongue, to remind them of what they once were.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“It’s how dragons make flames,” Marquis says. “They have several stomachs, like cows, and a gizzard, like chickens. When the food they eat ferments, it produces methane.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“So . . . this is a civil war?” I say. “With the government and the Dragon Queen on one side, and the rebels on the other?”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“—Todos vosotros os habéis encontrado en una situación de rechazo social —prosigue Ravensloe—. Todos sois, de uno u otro modo, inadaptados. Me ruborizo, sorprendida de pronto conmigo misma de la vergüenza que siento. «Inadaptada». Es una palabra triste, que se usa para describir a alguien de conducta extraña, o fuera de lugar, alguien que no sigue las reglas. Nunca imaginé que pudiera usarse para describirme a mí.”
― S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones

“el cabello me huele a humo de dragón.”
― S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones

“—¿Qué tipo de trato podría ofrecerle una niña humana a una dragona condenada?”
― S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones

“—El pueblo no debería temer a sus primeros ministros, Vivien —dice—. Los primeros ministros deberían temer al pueblo.”
― S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones

“Todo acto de traducción requiere sacrificio: esa es la dura verdad que me apasionó. No existe una correlación directa entre las palabras de un idioma y del otro, así que ninguna traducción puede ser por completo fiel al original. Así pues, aunque se pueda salvar la distancia entre idiomas de uno u otro modo, siempre queda un significado más profundo por manifestar, un secreto invisible para los que solo tienen un lenguaje con el que moverse por el mundo.”
― S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones

“El miedo genera odio, y ese odio puede oprimir tanto a los dragones como a los humanos.
--- Capitulo 23.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“—Vivimos en un mundo que lo permite todo, pero que no perdona nada.
--- Capitulo 22.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“... hay que poder comprender un idioma para poder manipularlo.
(...)
—Controlar los idiomas, controlar las palabras, es controlar lo que sabe la gente.
--- Capitulo 14.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

“Los idiomas son prácticos, cuantificables, traducibles... Todo lo que no es el amor.
--- Capitulo 14.”
― S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons