Melanie Rawn > Quotes

“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”
― Melanie Rawn, Dragon Prince

“If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Ruins of Ambrai

“Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll

“One voice whispered Beloved. She spread her colors on the starshine to embrace this land he had given her, and there were no shadows to darken the Fire soaring across the sand. Only light, only joy.

No one heard Elisel scream. Only the dragons saw her rise into the night sky like an arrow, mute after that one keening wail. It was two days before she returned to Skybowl.

Long before that, they found Sioned.”
― Melanie Rawn, Skybowl

“The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.”
― Melanie Rawn

“Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll

“It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince”
― Melanie Rawn

“My very precious and relentlessly literal child, it's religion. It doesn't have to make sense.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Ruins of Ambrai

“Wherever he was, whatever exile he condemned her to, he knew he would hear those footsteps behind him for the rest of his life - tripping over corpses.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll

“People don’t obey a law just because they’re told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that’s a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.”
― Melanie Rawn, Sunrunner's Fire

“Leaving the appointment as Lord Limner to your grandfather’s brother? Come, Zaragosa, why would a family of such power as you describe willingly step away from Court? It makes no sense.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Golden Key

“With the next diarmadhi, he’d wait to inspect and question before ordering the execution.”
― Melanie Rawn, Sunrunner's Fire

“Then somebody took her from him, put her on a horse and pushed him onto another, and they were riding for their lives while behind them, all through the night, all Stronghold burned as a funeral pyre.”
― Melanie Rawn, Stronghold

“All I am is a skinful of old bones on horseback.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Dragon Token

“He wanted to look at the face of his enemy - or at least upon his ashes.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Dragon Token

“What else could we call it and our new palace but Dragon’s Rest?”
― Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll

“Please don't tell me you believe dragons eat pretty girls for breakfast.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Dragon Token

“Age has little meaning. All you have to do to grow old is live long enough. Or fast enough.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Mageborn Traitor

“He had no liking for war. It was a loud, messy, dangerous business.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Dragon Token