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“Cimorene tilted her head to one side, considering. "I think I'm glad you didn't win."
"Oh? Why is that?" Kazul sounded amused.
"Because you wouldn't have had any use for a princess if you were the Queen of the Dragons, and if you hadn't decided to take me on, that yellow-green dragon Moranz would probably have eaten me," Cimorene explained.
"You mean, if I were the King of the Dragons," Kazul corrected her. "Queen of the Dragons is a dull job."
"But you're a female!" Cimorene said. "If you'd carried Colin's Stone from the Ford of Whispering Snakes to the Vanishing Mountain, you'd have had to be a queen, wouldn't you?"
"No, of course not," Kazul said. "Queen of the Dragons is a totally different job from King, and it's not one I'm particularly interested in. Most people aren't. I think the position's been vacant since Oraun tore his wing and had to retire."
"But King Tokoz is a male dragon!" Cimorene said, then frowned. "Isn't he?"
"Yes, yes, but that has nothing to do with it," Kazul said a little testily.
"'King' is the name of the job. It doesn't matter who holds it."
Cimorene stopped and thought for a moment. "You mean that dragons don't care whether their king is male or female; the title is the same no matter who the ruler is."
"That's right. We like to keep things simple."
"Oh.”
― Dealing with Dragons
"Oh? Why is that?" Kazul sounded amused.
"Because you wouldn't have had any use for a princess if you were the Queen of the Dragons, and if you hadn't decided to take me on, that yellow-green dragon Moranz would probably have eaten me," Cimorene explained.
"You mean, if I were the King of the Dragons," Kazul corrected her. "Queen of the Dragons is a dull job."
"But you're a female!" Cimorene said. "If you'd carried Colin's Stone from the Ford of Whispering Snakes to the Vanishing Mountain, you'd have had to be a queen, wouldn't you?"
"No, of course not," Kazul said. "Queen of the Dragons is a totally different job from King, and it's not one I'm particularly interested in. Most people aren't. I think the position's been vacant since Oraun tore his wing and had to retire."
"But King Tokoz is a male dragon!" Cimorene said, then frowned. "Isn't he?"
"Yes, yes, but that has nothing to do with it," Kazul said a little testily.
"'King' is the name of the job. It doesn't matter who holds it."
Cimorene stopped and thought for a moment. "You mean that dragons don't care whether their king is male or female; the title is the same no matter who the ruler is."
"That's right. We like to keep things simple."
"Oh.”
― Dealing with Dragons
“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”
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“No person, no thing—not Antarctica, not the universe, not ballet—is ever obligated to love us back. True, honest love for a thing is because you love it, with no expectation or want of reciprocation.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“With knot of one, the spell's begun.
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of three, the spell is free.
With knot of four, the power is stored.
With knot of five, this spell will thrive.
With knot of six, this spell I fix.
With knot of seven, the spell will waken.
With knot of eight, the spell will wait.
With knot of nine, the spell is mine.
With knot of ten, it begins again.”
― The Book of Life
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of three, the spell is free.
With knot of four, the power is stored.
With knot of five, this spell will thrive.
With knot of six, this spell I fix.
With knot of seven, the spell will waken.
With knot of eight, the spell will wait.
With knot of nine, the spell is mine.
With knot of ten, it begins again.”
― The Book of Life
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