Daughter of Dragons Quotes

“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'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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If you don't like who you are, then change who you are!" Kira told him. "If we can keep from being caught you'll have a chance to learn how to do other things.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Let me tell you something. Folks never know what they can do until they really have to, and then like as not they discover there's a lot more in them than they ever thought.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“If something really bad is going to happen, I want it to be while I'm trying to get something important done, not while I'm running.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“Her Aunt Alli seemed to be speaking to her, repeating a familiar lesson. Don't let having a gun make you confident, because confident people do stupid things, and if you need a gun you can't afford to be stupid. Thinking that it wouldn't be too hard to stay scared in this situation, Kira tried to smile at Jason. "This is important. We'll get it done.”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons

“If I only believe something when it's easy, when it doesn't cost anything, then I don't believe it, do I?" Kira asked him. "I knew it was dangerous. I'm not giving up." Jason looked back at her, angry and frustrated. "You are like your mother!”
― Jack Campbell, Daughter of Dragons