Dragon Soul Quotes

“You could approach someone worlds apart from you by offering them, like a handshake, a simple truth from their own lives.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“Keep your eyes down and don't speak unless you're spoken to were the only two rules a servant had to follow, and those just so happened also to be the basics of espionage.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“I have never been one to ignore the signs. Unless, of course, it works in my favor.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“He smelled a little strange, sweet and bitter at the same time, the way madness might have smelled if it could've taken a physical form.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“We should all be lucky enough to make something in this world half as fucked up as we were ourselves, something we could leave behind.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“Funny what one's willing to do for family, isn't it?' Fan said, pulse pounding like a jackrabbit's. 'I take no pleasure in saying this, but we aren't as different as I thought.'
'Don't be so fucking sentimental,' I told him, and the blood was already flowing when Thom shouted.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“You or me, I'm afraid, and I'm very attached to myself.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up my end of the bargain now that she couldn't uphold hers.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“I wouldn't even stoop so low as to pull the same trick on him he's pulled on me, because my girl was better than that. If you killed scum, you were scum. It was good enough for me but she was too good for it- too good for me- and always had been.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“You want this thing, this dragonsoul, for sentimental purposes. Because you can't let go of the glory days, or you long for a memento. Something to stick up on your mantelpiece so you can look at it and remember a time when you were actually of use to the world around you, when you were more than relevant-
when you were necessary. But you've got no imagination, no idea of the power contained in something like that. You can only see what it was: a part of an antique, as useless and outdated as the broken statues you passed along your way. But we... we have true vision. We're the ones who will take the potential nearly destroyed by the likes of you, nearly lost to the desert or even shattered by your own hand, and put it to a better use.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“This ain't beauty,' Rook said, and spat savagely- grossly- downwind. "Just some nasty shadows masquerading.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“Kalim respected me and I respected him, for the sole reason Rook did not respect me, because we were very different.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“And when were theories useless? I was a thinker, not a fighter, and the world was always in need of thoughts.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“In the court of Madoka, people who preyed on and stole from the poor and helpless deserved to be buried from the neck down and left to die in the desert while the birds picked out their eyes.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“She'd have no purpose in a world like this one,' I explained. 'Not now. Even if we did rebuild her-and if I thought we could, if I thought that would make you both happy...' I shook my head. 'In any case, with all that being beside the point, she'd be too big for how things stand in Thremedon now. So, the only other alternative would be to make her smaller- take that same spark she had, reduce her to something tiny enough to fit in your pocket, or in the palm of your hand. And that's all wrong too, isn't it? She wouldn't be the same. What you might have thought you could do- return to a time and place when the war was still being fought, when the Corps was still trying to win- it would require a different sort of magician. I don't think there's ever been one that powerful.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“She isn't anybody's,' Rook said darkly.
'Son. she's not yours, either," Sarah Fleet said.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“You are a woman; this is your body. You are beholden to no one, Ke-Han or Volstovic.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“You can tell Rook his statue's become something like the patron saint for Our Lady, and you can see whores there night and day, praying for safe childbirth and protection from diseases and the like. Though why they think he's the man to go to for that kind of help is beyond me. Just thought he might like to know there're whores on their knees in front of them- so I guess that goes back to what I was saying about things never changing.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“Besides, rats survived so well because they were rats. They knew when to keep quiet and they knew when to squeal.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul

“To have a purpose in life was a wealth that could never be measured.”
― Danielle Bennett, Dragon Soul