The Book of Dragons Quotes

“If it’s sentient, does that mean it has a soul?” Mrs. Hollins startled. “Why no. What a mad idea! Lots of beings of Mind are lacking in Soul. Surely you’ve seen politicians on the news.”
― Jonathan Strahan, The Book of Dragons

“Let us divide and conquer, as Narbonius declaimed in The Death of Many.” “You know the historical Narbonius divided his forces and they were defeated piecemeal?” asked Mister Fitz. “When Kidenses wrote the play, she chose to change the actual events.” “No,” admitted Sir Hereward. “I mean, the play is the thing. Who remembers the history?”
― Jonathan Strahan, The Book of Dragons

“There are only two things, he said to me, that survive and pass through the taints and decays and corruptions of this world unscathed and unchanged: God and gold. And one of them is all around us every day, in everything and comprised in and comprising everything, and the other one is very rare, and has to be crushed and sweated out of a rock or sifted, tiny speck by tiny speck, from the stinking silt of a riverbed. Guess which one people value the most.”
― Jonathan Strahan, The Book of Dragons