L'Poni Baldwin > Quotes

“Do you know what it’s like to kill a man? You just pushed a knife into living, moving skin and you realize you pierced a heart that beats against your sharp knife.

-Lucas Tyrel”
― Nipaporn Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“To all those whom seek the iron words of the community: if your book is good, it will stand on its own. Be it a short story, a novel, a novella, a chapter book, a poetry book, a chapbook, a manga or a graphic novel...it will seek reviews by itself. You need to do nothing with it. Do nothing but write. Give up review seeking and focus on writing, for that is what becomes you in the end.”
― L'Poni Baldwin

“I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.

-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)”
― Nipaporn Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorated his body. Huge black bruises, long scars that came from sword lacerations and whips and new wounds that bled fresh red blood.
The Dragonboy's father had no idea his son suffered.
That's because the boy never told.

From The Binding, a story from the upcoming tenth update of Dragons and Cicadas”
― L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his anger of dragons on me. They must really like us. They hide behind their Wasp Queen and pretend to hate us dragons, but in truth they love us. Why else would they bother with fucking us? That sentence probably turned you off. Thing is, I'm a very vulgar boy.

-Chance Karrucci (the Sweet Dragon)”
― Chanceus Karrucci, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.”
― Darcy Windbloom, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“Amazing things are often underrated, but in the end they always rise to the top.”
― L'Poni Baldwin

“He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail
...he watched his curved and voluptuous reptilian legs move with grace...
...its stare was docile and...loving...
He wanted that creature
He wanted him all to himself
He slapped his forehead, "Get ahold of yourself, George. It's a dragon!"
He couldn't hold himself
He followed the dragon-shifter into its cave

From Lonely George and the Dragon God, a standalone story deriving from the universe built in Dragons and Cicadas.”
― L'Poni Baldwin, Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

“He was all over me like brown rice!”
― Chanceus Karrucci

“We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the galaxy, is our testament to life.
Our dragons, in the sky, came from the stars. They brought many new things to explore.

From the Blessings of the Father Dragon, a poem”
― L'Poni Baldwin