Valley of Dragons Quotes

“Kindness leads to repentance, and repentance leads to change.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“It was the kind of beauty that hurts and heals at once.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“I didn't want kingdoms. I would be admirably content with a dragon to ride and Simon to marry.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Hanna found lilies of the valley in a tiny hidden hollow in the woods, and wove me a bridal crown of braids and flowers. My mother had been a statuesque sort of lily, but the diminutive kind suited me better. And I belonged to a valley now.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“joy had left no room for fear.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“In large part, this is why I write historical fantasy: to remind us that we all live in a fantasy world. As Chesterton says, all we have to do is sit still and let the wonders settle on us like flies.  Or, perhaps, like very small dragons.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Some would say it is not very considerate towards the nerves of her family for a young lady to leave her wedding breakfast on the back of a giant serpent—and in trousers, no less (me, not the serpent).”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Love is costly, and the truth is costly. But I’ve tried living without them.” She looked at me. “They are worth the cost—every bit.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“had always wondered why the ancients depicted Justice as a goddess, when it was Mercy that was considered the more womanly virtue.  I wondered no longer.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Joseph," Judith said. "He is the man who rescued me. My desperate pleas for freedom—which you ignored—found the ear of Adonai at last.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Today, my grandmother burned like Justice herself, unveiled and terrible, with a green snake coiled at her throat.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“it was my secret hope—that the prison my grandfather had made for himself would one day open enough for him to begin to see how far he was from the kingdom of heaven.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Father had worn the collar because of who he was, and not the other way round. And who he was had not changed, and never would.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“I thought that I would not mind even death itself, if I could die like this.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“I thought that my mortal body was not enough to contain the joy within it as the morning air rushed over me, and the sky blazed, and the heather bloomed, and my dragon glittered, and the larks welcomed me into their chorus of rejoicing as if I were one of them. ”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“it was in this: this living flow of potential between us,”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Now there was something inside me like static electricity building up. I put my hands on the dragon’s skin and almost felt a jolt pass between us.  It rushed through my blood like wine, like magic, like the sound of Janushek’s violin, or the warmth of Simon’s hand in mine.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“To be a sheep farmer, I had discovered during my time in Yorkshire, required the steadiness of a rock in the face of storms and disasters. ”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“But don’t you think there is a kind of self-absorption that is the same as cruelty in the end, in its effect on others?”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“It seemed rather appalling that two Christian peoples could not resolve their differences without going to war with each other like this every few years.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“I suspected I would never truly understand her, because I had not lived her life.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“I shuddered as we left the room. Something about all those books, forever unread behind glass, made me feel oppressed.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“Ever since I met you, I’ve been terrified that you might not…need me.” He looked at the floor. “That I might find myself needing someone so deeply who would turn out not to need me at all.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons

“It’s simply that when you can choose to love someone freely, without needing something from them—then you begin to understand a little about the love God bears towards His children.”
― Christina Baehr, Valley of Dragons