Dragon Seed Quotes

“and punched him right in the dick.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“the dragonflies stopped fighting each other and turned on the newcomer. The fox had turned and was starting to run when they hit it, ejecting huge, dripping spines from the end of their tails into the animal’s back as it tried to hide. The fox yelped piteously as it went rigid and tumbled into the water, dead. Oh. Okay. Right. So this was basically Australia. Everything here was horribly poisonous and out to kill me.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“That, my good sir, appears to be an eyeball.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“How wonderful,” I said flatly. The sarge grinned, her eyes glittering. “Every day’s wonderful here with me. Dismissed!”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“And that, right there, was why I wasn’t playing a mage. I’d probably read a Name backwards and summon Cthulhu.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“But I can’t tell you about it.” “Why not?” “Because I cannot.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“Once I found a comfortable position, sleep hit me like a ton of bricks: deep, dreamless, time-dilated sleep, the kind where you feel like you closed your eyes, counted to five, and open them again to find the sun shining. Game sleep.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“a battle cry. “PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed

“there was something to be said for military training. It gave you a different way of looking at the world, turning ‘hopeless disaster’ into objectives, situations and challenges.”
― James Osiris Baldwin, Dragon Seed