Quotes from Melanie Rawn

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

One voice whispered Beloved . She spread her colors on the starshine to embrace this land he had given her, and there were no shadows to darken the Fire soaring across the sand. Only light, only joy. No one heard Elisel scream. Only the dragons saw her rise into the night sky like an arrow, mute after that one keening wail. It was two days before she returned to Skybowl. Long before that, they found Sioned.

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince

Wherever he was, whatever exile he condemned her to, he knew he would hear those footsteps behind him for the rest of his life - tripping over corpses.

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

Leaving the appointment as Lord Limner to your grandfather's brother? Come, Zaragosa, why would a family of such power as you describe willingly step away from Court? It makes no sense.

My very precious and relentlessly literal child, it's religion. It doesn't have to make sense.

Then somebody took her from him, put her on a horse and pushed him onto another, and they were riding for their lives while behind them, all through the night, all Stronghold burned as a funeral pyre.

Please don't tell me you believe dragons eat pretty girls for breakfast.

He had no liking for war. It was a loud, messy, dangerous business.

All I am is a skinful of old bones on horseback.

He wanted to look at the face of his enemy - or at least upon his ashes.

With the next diarmadhi, he'd wait to inspect and question before ordering the execution.

What else could we call it and our new palace but Dragon's Rest?

Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.