The Dragon's Promise Quotes

“Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“We are bound, remember? If you have no heart, I will give you half of mine. If you have no spirit, I will bind yours to mine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Was it worse to be a kite with no anchor, wandering lost on the wind, or a kite that didn't dare seize the wind and never flew?”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Even chaos has its place.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“You're interesting, for a human. When you look into the sea, think of me sometimes.
"I will.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Your fate is bound to mine now,” I whispered, my lips against his. “Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.” “Together,” he echoed firmly. “Always.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“I've missed the sound of you.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Your brothers warned me that a lifetime with you would mean plenty of jabs to my pride. But my love for you is far greater than pride, Shiori. Far greater than anything.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“She could see the light in others, whereas they saw only the darkness in her. That was her greatest pain.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“For what was chaos but a knife slashing across the fabric of destiny?”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care,” I murmured to myself. “It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“I’m starting to think I should have given you cakes instead of a comb.”

“No.” I set down my food, looking thoughtful. “Cakes, I relish only for a minute. Your comb, I’ll treasure forever.” I wiped sugar off my fingers and winked at him.

“But I will take cakes over flowers any day.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“I’m only out of breath from seeing you again, Shiori.” Shiori. The way he said my name hadn’t changed, like the first notes to a song he loved to sing.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“You'd do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“I didn’t want mine to be that way,” he confessed. “I was hoping, if it turned out to be you, that you would want to be here. Because you cared for me.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart. As if he saved you from drowning in the Sacred Lake.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“He should know I won't be saving you again, so he had better be up to the task."
I put my hands on my hips. "You do realize I'm capable of saving myself from time to time."
"Even still. With all the trouble you get into Shiori [...] you need whatever help you can get. Make sure he knows that.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“I’ve missed the sound of you.” I’ve missed the sound of you.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“But a promise is a promise,” I said softly. “Not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“Let our strands be ever knotted as we weather joy and sorrow, fortune and misfortune, and pass our years from youth to old age. We are of one heart, honor-bound, and one spirit, whether on earth or in heaven. From now until ten thousand years forth.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always,” I began, “through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out. That was Raikama’s mistake.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise

“Your magic is your own,” replied Gen simply. “It’s always been there for you to see, but you probably weren’t looking hard enough.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon’s Promise