Dragon Rider Quotes

“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Aren't you a little small for a dragon rider?' the venin hisses.

'Big enough to kill you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Lake Natron resided in northern Tanzania near an active volcano known as Ol Doinyo Lengai. It was part of the reason the lake had such unique characteristics. The mud had a curious dark grey color over where Jack had been set up for observation, and he noted that there was now an odd-looking mound of it to the right of one of the flamingo’s nests. He zoomed in further and further, peering at it, and then realized what he was actually seeing.

The dragon had crouched down beside the nests and blended into the mud. From snout to tail, Jack calculated it had to be twelve to fourteen feet long. Its wings were folded against its back, which had small spines running down the length to a spiky tail. It had a fin with three prongs along the base of the skull and webbed feet tipped with sharp black talons. He estimated the dragon was about the size of a large hyena. It peered up at its prey with beady red eyes, its black forked tongue darting out every few seconds. Its shoulder muscles bunched and its hind legs tensed.

Then it pounced.

The dark grey dragon leapt onto one of flamingoes atop its nest and seized it by the throat. The bird squawked in distress and immediately beat its wings, trying to free itself. The others around them took to the skies in panic. The dragon slammed it into the mud and closed its jaws around the animal’s throat, blood spilling everywhere. The flamingo yelped out its last breaths and then finally stilled. The dragon dropped the limp carcass and sniffed the eggs before beginning to swallow them whole one at a time.

“Holy shit,” Jack muttered.

“Have we got a visual?”

“Oh, yeah. Based on the size, the natives and the conservationists were right to be concerned. It can probably wipe out a serious number of wildlife in a short amount of time based on what I’m seeing. There’s only a handful of fauna that can survive in these conditions and it could make mincemeat out of them.”

“Alright, so what’s the plan?”

“They told me it’s very agile, which is why their attempts to capture it haven’t worked. I’m going to see if it responds to any of the usual stimuli. So far, they said it doesn’t appear to be aggressive.”

“Copy that. Be careful, cowboy.”

“Ten-four.” Jack glanced down at his utility belt and opened the pocket on his left side, withdrawing a thin silver whistle. He put it to his lips and blew for several seconds. Much like a dog whistle, Jack couldn’t hear anything.

But the dragon’s head creaked around and those beady red eyes locked onto him.

Jack lowered the whistle and licked his dry lips. “If I were in a movie, this would be the part where I said, ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this.’”

The dragon roared, its grey wings extending out from its body, and then flew straight at him.”
― Kyoko M., Of Claws & Inferno

“You’re like a bright flame in a dark night. Like a red flower in a field of dead grass.”
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“Stop thinking of me as a flower and start realizing I can be a help to you. The world isn’t going to let me be a delicate, closely guarded thing. I don’t have a choice but to be tougher than I ever wanted to be.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“You soon get tired of what's extraordinary, dragon rider. It's often the most ordinary things that bring great happiness.”
― Cornelia Funke, The Griffin's Feather

“Maybe it’s time you explained yourself, Dark Prince,” I said, crossing my arms over my chest. “If I’m going to keep your secrets then I think it’s time that you shared them with me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Sometimes it’s the ones tempered by fire who are strongest when you really need them.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Honors, just like difficulties, were to be faced with courage and strength.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“What terrible human presumption it is to catch other living creatures and hold them captive!”
― Cornelia Funke, Dragon Rider

“You could repay it by treating your life with value. Every time I see you, you’re risking it for something!”

He shrugged. “I’m a Dragon Rider. We hold our lives with open hands.”

It seemed like a terrible way to guard something so precious.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Your mutual misunderstandings make me squirm. It’s like watching a dragonlet flame his own tail.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“What did you do for a friend who had been through what she had?"

"You’re doing it. She needs support and a listening ear. Give her that and the ragged edges will start to heal. The other part, though ... that I’m not sure about.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Now that the mess is sorted out, I have urgent business to return to.”

“I thought you were playing cards?” Ephretti said, surprise on her face.

“Precisely.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Every time you see me, I’m broken,” he admitted, twisting his fingers together. He looked like he’d exposed his heart and offered me a dagger. What did he think? That I judged him?

“Leng,” I said gently, hobbling to where he was. “I will always be broken. It doesn’t make me weak. When I see you hurt it doesn’t make you weak.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“It would be so much easier if I could just be a student instead of always a pawn in a bigger game – and I had no illusions. I was no center of the storm. I was no rook or bishop. I was a pawn and nothing more.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Are you seeing strange visions, diviner?” he cooed. “They are not real except to you. Calm your heart, let your breath flow free. You are safe with me, pale bird. Do not fly away.” His tone was so gentle that it almost calmed me, too.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

““Born high on the mountain,
Blazing bright under the sun’s demise,
Twice blind but still seeing,
The only bulwark against the dark
Watch as the arches declare
Dominion of Light.””
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“You can’t chase after a girl when you have a nation to defend.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“We each make our own decisions and we stand or fall by the truth of them.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Its name came out of her in a strangled whisper. "Dragon.”
― Tiani Davids, The Dragon Healer

“There's more than one way to fall.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I don’t like gratitude so don’t thank me. An apprentice shouldn’t like her master. She should feel terror at his presence.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“I didn’t know that princes sat on wooden benches.” Prince Rakturan’s grin was humorless and threatening - as usual.

“I didn’t know that peasant girls ran off to fight Magikas. We learn new things every day. It’s what makes being alive so exciting, am I right?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“You. Can I trust you?”

“You’ve threatened me, belittled me, mocked me and manhandled me.”

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“I’d say that since none of that has achieved the results you wanted, you could certainly afford to choose a different course.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Towering, white in field of blue,
Soft and gentle as we flew,
Through the golden sunlight bright,
Dream of never-ending flight.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

““And one will come from the north, burning, burning,
Judgment and Wisdom borne by the flow of spirit to spirit,
Do not speak to us of the times that follow,
For they shall be as a dream of death as a nightmare walking,
The dusk shall vanquish all but the covenant until the dawn of the tide.””
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“In our lands, the prophesies say:
‘Offered then denied,
Bride of Morning,
Dark’s only hope of peace.
A deal with death he strikes,
And from his mouth springs truth
To save the morning light.’”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“Shouldn’t a position as important as guarding a gate be for someone older?

Shouldn’t a job as important as delivering the Dominar’s messages be for someone older?

Ouch.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“I wondered if there were sheep here to feed them.

Horses make a great substitute.

I hoped he was joking.

I’m not.

He really did push jokes too far!”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Ingen bryr sig om vad en ryttare har på sig så länge det är svart”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing