Daughter of Dragons Quotes

“You're saying that you became delusional because you got to know me." "Yes! Exactly! I got to spend enough time with you to get to know the real you!" "Jason, I know that you mean that well, but basically you're saying that spending time with me drove you insane. I'm sure my mother wouldn't be surprised to hear that someone forced to spend a while with me went crazy as a result, but it's really not a compliment." "I think it is," Jason said. "It's not. You really need to work on the whole giving compliments thing. Trust me.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“What if they're waiting for us out there?" Jason asked, his voice echoing oddly in the tunnel. "Then you and I are going to go through them like a stampede through a weak fence," Kira said. "What happened to the Kira who didn't think she could do anything much?" "Kira doesn't have the luxury of self-doubt at the moment.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Jason spoke in a rough voice. "Hating you, hating anybody else, wouldn't make my life any better. My parents think tearing other people down, tearing me down, makes them bigger. But I know it doesn't. It makes them smaller. And I am not going to be like them.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Because I'm not doing it so people will think I'm great. It needs to be done, I can do it, so I do, and I don't want people making a big deal out of it." Kira realized that her mouth was hanging open and closed it. "You sound like my mother. And my father. Which I never expected to say to you.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“I'm not worth millions of lives, Jason." "You are to me! And…and to your mom and dad!" Kira raised her head up enough to turn it to look at him. "Jason, my mother always says that no one counts for more than anyone else, and my father says that every person is a reality, something special and unique that helps form the world we think we see around us. I can't believe I matter more than so many other people.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Jason, my parents are dragons. I realized that a long time ago. Not bad dragons. They're wonderful dragons. But when a dragon is there, that's all anyone sees. A dragon is big and impressive and dangerous, though my parents are only dangerous to people who want to hurt other people. And I'm this girl, in the shadows, in my mother's shadow, and all anyone sees is the dragon. It's an amazing dragon. I love that dragon. But because of her, no one ever sees me. No one ever will. They see her.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“We spend all of our time doing that stuff instead of talking to the people right next to us, the people who know us. I don't know them and they don't know me. How can you find yourself when you're part of an infinite crowd and everybody is yelling?”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“How come you don't have more going for you?" Jason asked, frowning out the small window beside their seats. "Excuse me?" Kira said, thinking that she must have misheard. "Why haven't you developed more? You ought to be a lot bigger in at least a couple of areas." Kira stared at him, mingled rage and disbelief freezing words in her throat. Jason glanced toward her and flinched away at her expression. "What?" She finally managed to get a few words out. "How…dare…you…" "I'm sorry! I just wondered why you guys hadn't developed your technology more in at least a couple of areas! I didn't realize you were so sensitive about that!" "Our technology?" Kira looked away from him, inhaling and exhaling slowly. "What does the word develop have to do with technology?”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“You could try being funny more often," she added, releasing her grip on his shirt. "If you do, I think I might someday be able to tolerate you, if I don't kill you first." Jason grinned. "That's the nicest thing any girl ever said to me.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Why does everything have to be so complicated?" Kira complained. "Everything is simple," Alera said. "Doing it is complicated.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“You had a good time today, right?" Kira asked. "Wasn't it amazing?" "Yeah," Jason repeated. "But anything with you is amazing.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“love makes people delusional, Jason! You aren't seeing me anymore. Your delusions are causing you to see some illusion of me that is far, far better than I could ever actually be.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“I can't believe we survived that." "I can't believe how you can fight." "I was scared to death. I hardly knew what I was doing." Jason shook his head. "I'd hate to fight you when you did know what you were doing.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Can you row some more?" "The engines cannae take no more, Captain," Jason muttered in an accent stranger than his usual one, then turned a grin on her. "That's another ancient joke.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“It's quiet." "Too quiet," Jason said, then laughed. "That's an ancient joke on Earth." "The more I hear about Urth the stranger it gets.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Can you giggle?" he asked. "I don't giggle, Jason. I can…chuckle.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Every person is special," Kira insisted. "Every person deserves dignity and respect, and being thought of as something that matters.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Your one flaw is that you haven't seen who you really are," Jason said, looking embarrassed. "You think that's my one flaw? Oh, are you in for some difficult surprises,”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“I just want to be like everyone else, Jason. But I can't. And I can't be like my mother, either. So what am I?" "The most amazing girl I ever met," Jason said.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“you want me to tell you that the people who know you don't think you could do the sort of stuff your mother did. But the truth is, they think you're a whole lot more than you think you are.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Kira? Thanks." "For what?" "Being somebody I never lied to. I didn't think I could do that." "You're welcome," Kira said. "There are probably a lot of things you could do, things you could be, that you don't think you could.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“You'd have every right to complain." "Somebody warned me that if I kept complaining she'd hurt me," Jason said, grinning.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Not making a decision was making a decision not to move. A decision to fail.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Change," Jason said. "It hurts, but it has to be, and it gives us new things." Kira turned her smile on him. "Why do you say you're not smart? Jason, you have great ideas.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“I'm sorry," Kira said. "Are you? You're pretty good at shoving people off of moving trains." "Jason, before I met you I had never shoved anyone off of a train." "I guess that makes me special,”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Are you all right?" Kira asked. "You throw me off a train again, and then ask if I'm all right," Jason said, his voice flat. "Why do I doubt your sincerity?”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Get the blazes out of here before I have an attack of common sense.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Excuse me," Kira said. "I am perfectly capable of getting myself into a mess. Isn't that what the Senior Mechanics tried to say about my mother? That someone else was leading her astray? I'm in this mess because of my decisions.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons