Dragon Bound Quotes
"Honestly, what had she done? She had taken one look at a pretty face and forgotten everything her mom had taught her about survival."
"Besides pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final."
"Her life was in ruins. She would be on the run for the rest of her life, all fifteen minutes or so of it."
"The Cauldron flaunted caveat emptor like a prizefighter’s satin cloak."
"Magic shops may have to stay within a certain district, but protesters have to stay fifty feet away from the shops."
"He remembered a transcendent light and an immense wind."
"He liked the gush of blood as he gorged on flesh."
"Money, now, there was a concept that intrigued him."
"I’m sorry I had to take your penny. Here’s another to replace it."
"You’ll be sorry! You’ll never find anyone else that will put up with all your bullshit!"
"Don’t let yourself get too attached to people, places or things."
"The picture IDs got updated as Pia had grown older."
"Rest assured that Cuelebre is using every resource available to conduct a full investigation."
"One of the things she appreciated most about her relationship with Quentin was that they didn’t ask each other questions that were too personal."
"All you’ve got to do is tell me what’s wrong."
"You made a stupid mistake. That doesn’t make you stupid."
"The demesnes of the Elder Races lay superimposed over the human geographical map."
"His knowledge of the Elder Races was near encyclopedic."
"If you tell someone your real Name, you have forever given that person Power over you."
"You’re not supposed to be here," she whispered.
"So, is that your long, scaly, reptilian tail, or are you just happy to see me?"
"I think that you would do anything to get your property back."
"It's normal for people to say please when they make a request."
"I’m a vegetarian and you’re rather famously not."
"I know everything in my hoard and exactly where it is."
"I am old and I am often cruel and calculating, and it is not safe to be around me when I am in a rage."
"The beguilement from the dream has worn off. Whatever you feel is real, and what you choose to do about it is all your own."
"You don’t need those other identities. I like the name Pia Alessandra Giovanni. It suits you."
"Women really do take a lot longer in the bathroom."
"You’re mine. You can deny it, argue, throw fits, try to run away. But. You’re. Still. Mine."
"You’re safe. I just want to taste you. No more."
"It’s a Honda Civic, and it’s a fine car. Very fuel efficient."
"Every race has had its less stellar moments now and then."
"I don’t know what the hell you are. We’re adding that to a growing list of things for that conversation we’re going have when we get out of here."
"You’re going to do as I say. Do you understand? Now is not the time to argue or disobey me."
"So now what do we do?" She threw up her hands. She could feel somewhere inside there was a crack that was getting wider. It was just a matter of time before she fell into it, like the beetle, only she wasn’t so sure she would be able to crawl her way back out again.
"Fuck you. You’re not the boss of me," she mumbled against his palm.
"I won’t leave you alone for long. I’ll be quick as I can." A fat tear splashed onto his hand and he looked as if it had seared him.
"How did I get here again? It’s like I had a grocery list of all the things I shouldn’t do, and I went right on down it, checking off things as I got to them."
"You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off of the ole Lone Ranger, and you don’t steal from Cuelebre."
"Are you sure?" he said, sounding amused. "You know how to use that thing?"
"I’ve had a lifetime of classes, but I haven’t had to use any of it in real life. Yet."
"You were faster than I was afraid you might be."
"I wouldn’t rustle, peep or tweet either if I were you."
"I see that Elf again, I’m gonna rip him a new one."
"Despite their banter, they both knew their situation was growing more desperate."
"Buck up, girly girl. Things are just getting interesting."
"She wasn’t calm. She was running around inside her head like a crazy person, her heart still doing the jackrabbit dance."
"You can’t just surrender," she said. "They’re going to kill you!"
"It won’t work anyway," she said in a flat voice. "They’re not going to let me go."
"Thank you for saving my life again, Pia Alessandra Giovanni."
"I’m just bored with rubbing your nose in it."
"What does that feel like?" she asked him. "It feels good."
"I take it all back," she shouted at him telepathically. "You’re not funny!" she screamed out loud. Dragon laughter filled her head.
"I’m feeling a little Fay Wray here, but otherwise it’s great," she told him.
"After everything, now she was headed back to New York in the grasp of the very creature she had been running away from."
"All she knew for sure was that she still faced a dangerous and uncertain future."
"He’s not really mad at you. He just got surprised."
"She called me ‘my lady,’" she told him in a plaintive voice. "I don’t know who that is. I’m no lady."
"You’re not going to do some kind of black magic hoo-doo on me with this, are you?"
"Whether he knew about you before or not is a moot point. After what happened on the plain, you have just become a major target."
"You remember how I got to you with the dream. What if some magical attack occurs?"
"I reserve the right to sometimes know better than you do what should be done."
"You’re deflecting. You really don’t want to talk about this, do you?"
"No lock can hold you, you’re an herbivore, you have to wear a dampening spell to appear human, and your mother was revered by the Elves."
"I don’t have a problem with heights—when there’s a rail!"
"I am being treated with extraordinary graciousness, my lord."
"I’m not just a possession, like you’d own a lamp."
"I guess I want what a lot of people want. I want to feel safe."
"I am cursed with a terminal case of curiosity."
"It was a long time ago. Once I really was the beast the Elves call me."
"We just thought . . . You are the handsomest man I've ever seen."
"Take it off the ledge now. Let go of your friend. You like him."
"Take deep breaths, trying to dispel the jitters."
"You have to tell me so I can learn not to do whatever it is I did."
"I need to know my wishes matter. I don’t want to be talked about in the third person while I’m standing right there or for my life to be arranged without my consent."
"Everything has an end. Even I will end one way or another."
"No cage could hold her. Her life sacrificed could bestow immortality."
"Be smart for once. Don’t add another thing to your stupid list."
"You have the afternoon. After that I’m coming to get you."
"A fugitive dereliction hovered around the edges of the streets, a sense of something sharp and desperate that huddled in shadowed places waiting to show its teeth after nightfall."
"Nobody in there knew we were coming. You guys are not going to go in and scare the shit out of anybody who happens to be inside, so just guard the entrances and stay the hell outside."
"You have caused more trouble in the last couple of weeks than a street gang of Wyr-rats running amuck."
"Predator/herbivore mixes are much more unusual than homogenous matches, although they do happen, of course, since we Wyr are much more than just our animal natures."
"You don’t have to like or approve of me. You don’t have to agree with Dragos’s decisions. You have to do what you’re told."
"I’ve always had a high metabolism. Local anesthesia at the dentist? Forget about it. It doesn’t take until they pump enough in me to numb an elephant."
"It’s been a hell of a day for a couple of weeks now."
"Let’s not consider that a metaphor for anything."
"I can beat any pace you set, asshole. Catch me if you can."
"Don’t you dare leave me. I swear to God, I will follow you into hell if I have to and drag you back by the hair."
"I don’t care!" he roared. "Get any goddamn doctor fast as you can. Steal one from Monroe if you have to. One of you fly to New York and get our Wyr healer!"
"I’m awake, I’m asleep, I’m awake, I’m asleep. I’m in the house, I’m out. Now I’m in again. This is getting ridiculous."
"You were dying, you little shit. Your heart shut down and your lungs stopped working. I had to take over for a while."
"You stepped it up when you had to. You did what needed to be done and got yourself away."
"I’m not going anywhere, Pia. Not anywhere. And neither are you."
"You make me laugh. You make me happy. You’re my miracle and my home."
"Well, Dragos, it’s one thing to agree that we’re mates, but I don’t know about marriage."
"I’m going to DVR my own meltdown and e-mail it to my therapist."