Robert Vane > Quotes

“among us,”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“Dragons would make poor merchants. We lack the patience to bargain, and we tend to eat the inventory.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“Dragons hated furies”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“moved my head closer to Harlan. He showed no fear. His smirk held steady. “If you’re thinking of getting friendly, I’ve already told you I’ve a wife, even if she’s far away.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“Never before had a leviathan been so furious. Meet Harlan Dor, giant fishy.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Burden

“The Latticework.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“I climbed onto the shore with a distinct lack of elegance. Dragons weren’t meant for such things.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Burden

“I had come to Ni-Yota with a simple mission: save my sister, kill the wizard. I had teeth, wings, determination, and maybe a bit of magic to aid me. Easy as gobbling a goat. Instead, I found myself entangled with a strange human, feuding dragons, and a web of intrigue I didn’t understand. Also, Ni-Yota had no goats.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“He said you were rolling around in your cave, singing about sheep bones. Badly. At one point you began dodging non-existent potatoes.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“among us”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“One of my first acts as a free dragon had been to get a person killed. How very human of me.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“Harlan noticed my noticing.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“Fresh blood ran all over the deck. I watched it spread. I’d have to drag myself to a drier area to sleep. Damn.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“This human had been hatched in a cold nest.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“You feel lighter than before,” I told him. “How much did your common sense weigh before you lost it back there?”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Burden

“I, too, have a higher purpose. But quests for these lofty goals are like sailing a ship around the world. The course isn’t a straight line. But if your heart is true, it will lead you through the roughest seas to the place you were meant to find.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Quest

“Ah, so dragons never need to ask for directions,” Harlan observed. “Male humans are similar.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Burden

“But we are a part of something, we two friends. Your quest is now mine. Our bond will see us through this. I will not abandon you, just as I know you would do the same for me.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Fate

“Are you going to die, or do you just snore worse than a drunk barmaid?”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“I had glimpsed what Kiata had spoken of back in Rolm—this Latticework. There was a world deeper than this one, an invisible framework upon which the mundane sight and touch and sound rested.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“Nothing was sacred to humans—even the things they themselves had declared to be sacred in the first place.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“Norta couldn’t see the Latticework. She didn’t understand how dragons were connected by Chords of magic to the new reality and to each other. We were more than flesh, blood, and bone. We were magic.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Fate

“Once you accept who you are, you are already healed. Your destiny is yours to make.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Quest

“It was like no other battle I had ever fought; instead of facing an enemy of flesh and blood, it was my own mind that threatened me. Or perhaps it was just my imagination.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Chains

“Oftentimes we are told things without words, even by the dead. You can learn much by knowing what a person did with the life they had, as well as the manner of their death.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Burden

“I looked down at myself. The rust was all over me.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Quest

“It seems life ain’t yet over, and ain’t yet done being interesting.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War

“most tempting beliefs are those that can cut your heart deepest. Beware of those.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Quest

“all humans fear. Death and what follows is among our greatest fears.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's Quest

“The air changed again. I held my breath. Then, the impossible appeared. From the upper reaches of the chamber came a dragon.”
― Robert Vane, A Dragon's War