H. Leighton Dickson > Quotes

“Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“We didn’t have words. We didn’t have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“I shared the novice aviary with three other drakes - a moss green by name of SeaTorrent, a brown called Darkling, and a red with a love of food named Majentrix. All were young, perhaps half my size, and afraid of me. Understandably so.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“People say that a Dragon breathes Fire. That is a myth. A Dragon IS Fire and his Whole Life is the Story of his Burning - Page by Blistering Page.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“Her stare was cold, inscrutable, as if she were weighing him in the white, hot fire of her eyes. He allowed himself to be weighed in that scale for it seemed the only means by which she had to judge the world around her. So beautiful a measure, he noted, but the scales so dreadfully unbalanced.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Journey In The Year Of The Tiger

“Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Walk in the Way of Lions

“All of life is falling. You fall in love, you fall out of love. You fall out of grace, you fall into luck, you fall out of favour. You fall out of one life and into another. You fall on your knees, you fall on your face and when you hit the ground, all your bones shatter and you wish you didn’t have to get up again. Yes, I am very afraid of falling.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Songs in the Year of the Cat

“They are called Stick People because they build their world of sticks.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“While a dragon may be worshipped, she may never be truly tamed.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Sand & Storm: The Autobiography of a Goddess

“Really Ursa, now I see why you wear white.” She mounted her horse in one smooth motion. “Why?” “The blood shows up so much better.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Journey In The Year Of The Tiger

“the same with dragons. So that morning, I shook the snow from my head and gazed”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“remembered the eye in the tent guilt with gold. “Just”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Songs in the Year of the Cat

“The kind of man you’d fog in the dark”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Ship of Spells

“The gate to hell is flanked by approval and rejection.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Cold Stone & Ivy: The Ghost Club

“Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon

“Perhaps because I can hold up both ends of a conversation and quite happily too. Besides, by talking to yourself, you are guaranteed never to lose an argument and you always have someone to blame when you do.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Journey in the Year of the Tiger

“Women changed their entire lives, embraced it from one stage to the next and emerged stronger, more resilient for the changing. Men, it seemed, strove to keep life unchanging and predictable. No wonder there were more men in prison. Life excelled in disappointing.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Swallowtail and Sword: The Scholar's Book of Story and Song

“There is no such thing as honor, Captain. There is only desire, and the sorrow that it brings”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Walk in the Way of Lions

“It more often than not involves a measuring of self, of what is right against what is want. Often these points of decision carry him(or her) down roads that, later, are regretted and even cursed.”
― H. Leighton Dickson, To Journey in the Year of the Tiger

“The earth force is a dragon’s best friend, next to wind and fire. The”
― H. Leighton Dickson, Dragon of Ash & Stars: The Autobiography of a Night Dragon