Dragon of Ash & Stars Quotes

“Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“We didn’t have words. We didn’t have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“I shared the novice aviary with three other drakes - a moss green by name of SeaTorrent, a brown called Darkling, and a red with a love of food named Majentrix. All were young, perhaps half my size, and afraid of me. Understandably so.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“People say that a Dragon breathes Fire. That is a myth. A Dragon IS Fire and his Whole Life is the Story of his Burning - Page by Blistering Page.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“They are called Stick People because they build their world of sticks.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“the same with dragons. So that morning, I shook the snow from my head and gazed”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“The earth force is a dragon’s best friend, next to wind and fire. The”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon