The Dragon King and I Quotes

“It was like being told that there was a Santa Clause and that he was every bit as awesome as you’d always thought he would be…but that he had terminal cancer and would be gone by the end of the month. My inner child just got raped by reality.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“He was built like a Spartan (the Gerard Butler kind, Nom).”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard—almost painful.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Who the hell would consider being the female equivalent of Justin Bieber a curse? If you’re whining about the world being your stage and every male on it your thirteen-year-old fan girl, then my sympathy level just dropped exponentially.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“He made a low, unhappy, sound in the back of his throat as he followed, and I felt my own spirits lift at his darkening mood. Childish? Yes. But I found that I could live with the moniker.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I don’t know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who’ve perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well as my mother has.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I told them that I’d need a larger casket.”

I don’t want to know. “Why?”

“Because I plan on spending the majority of my afterlife turning over in my grave while Elizabeth Adler rubs the fact that she already has three grandkids and a handsome son-in-law in my face.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“What is this?”

“It’s a Harley.”

I looked at him from the corner of my eye before turning my silent censure back onto his bike.

“I was implying that you should take me to your big boy mode of transportation instead.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I'd never actually seen my mother sleep. As far as I knew, she simply shut herself in her room once night fell and lowered herself back into the pit from whence she came.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“he didn’t have on a stitch of clothing. I suppose shape-shifting into a dragon gets to be hell on a wardrobe. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“I spent a wretched five minutes throwing up everything I’d ever eaten, ever thought about eating, or would eat in the future. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Spend enough time here and this world would rot any of us.” “Are you saying that just being here is enough to turn you—?” “Evil? Most definitely.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“there was no satisfaction to be had in dry heaving. I”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Everyone is trapped in his or her own fairytale and it’s up to them to make their own happy endings.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“while I personally had never used a salt shaker,”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“My inner child just got raped by reality.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“Childish? Yes. But I found that I could live with the moniker.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I

“He was built like a Spartan (the Gerard Butler kind, nom). I liked that.”
― Adrianne Brooks, The Dragon King and I