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1 " The heart breaks, but carries on. It can shoulder the most impossible burdens. "
― Marc Secchia , The Onyx Dragon (Shapeshifter Dragon Legends, #2)
2 " You think!” cried Mama. “She’s just a-looking after your backside and mine.” But at least her arms let up. Shioni could breathe again.“It’d take five of her to look after your backside.”Mama seemed to find his rudeness amusing. A beaming smile lit up her round face like the sun leaping above the hills of Abyssinia in the morning. “Better a plump, well-padded rump, than the rear end of a skinny goat like you, eh? "
― Marc Secchia , The Enchanted Castle (Shioni of Sheba, #1)
3 " Still lay the Island-World beneath the whisper of a Dragon’s wings. "
― Marc Secchia , Aranya (Shapeshifter Dragons, #1)
4 " Go burn the heavens, Dragon and Rider. "
5 " Once bitten, twice shy, Dragon? It’s alright. I’m also learning. We Dragons say, once bitten, bite back twice as hard. "
― Marc Secchia , Thunder o Dragon (Dragon Fires Rising, #3)
6 " Of course. Dragons love a good, long tail. "
― Marc Secchia , I am Dragon (Dragon Fires Rising #2)
7 " I used to think I saw honour in battles and accomplishments and medals. But now I see those are the honours of men, which are as dust. The honour of the heart is another matter entirely. "
8 " My eyes are not sparkly! I’m not a sparkly sort of girl … I go around with dirty knees and slay dragons in my spare time, for the love of … oh! "
― Marc Secchia , The Sacred Lake (Shioni of Sheba, #4)
9 " Let our battle commence, Third War-Hammer Yolathian of Jeradia. I shall not be merciful again. "
10 " The blazing wings of dawn spirited me away, Dragon-swift above the suns-rise, Flying to my destiny beyond the clouds. "
― Marc Secchia , The Pygmy Dragon (Shapeshifter Dragon Legends, #1)
11 " A silvery voice chimed, Today a Sun Dragoness is born, first of her kind. Welcome to the Island-World, Riika. The stars sing with you. She is born! Rising, "
― Marc Secchia , Dragon Thief
12 " Stoke thy fires, thou Dragon-hearted daughter of flame, Rend the storm with thy mighty wings unfurled, Graciously salute the dawn. "
13 " Even evil can be turned to good, "
― Marc Secchia , The Girl who Swam with Whales (Islesong Book 3)
14 " This morning I’m a mosquito, now you’re a flying cart?” Arosia "
15 " I’m scared, I burn, o Dragon please tell me, How do you love a fire? Every scale upon his body trumpeted its delighted recognition. He bugled back: You become the fire. Even "
― Marc Secchia , Dragonlove (Dragonfriend, #2)
16 " I love bold questions, unanswerable conundrums, sweeping philosophical considerations and most especially, apprentices and scholars who do not simply accept my every caprice or directive without applying the lambent brain pathways! "
― Marc Secchia , The Dragon Librarian (Scrolls of Fire, #1)
17 " Dragon a … special friend?” The Princess knew her face gave far too much away. She wanted to bury its burning in the pillow-roll, but instead, she tried to meet Akemi’s gaze with an innocent arch of her eyebrows. “Besides the fact that the timeline of your story is impossible using any Dragonship technology yet invented,” the old woman said, with a kindly twinkle in her eye, “I know a few things about young women’s hearts. Keep your peace; hear my tale before you judge me a nosy old woman, for I’ve a tale to tell. I too have a special friend – a Dragoness called Yukari. If pressed, she’ll admit she’s an Aquamarine "
― Marc Secchia , Dragonfriend Treasury - The Complete Dragonfriend Series
18 " Treacherous the mirrored face of The Deep, Shrouding a writhing coven of monsters, Fang-toothed, barb-flanged, poison-tipped, Serenity. "
― Marc Secchia , The Girl who Sang with Whales (IsleSong, #1)
19 " Master Jo’el, I trust you’ve had no more trouble with your Dragonship?” “Well,” said the Master, eyebrows crawling toward the swirling "
― Marc Secchia , Dragonfriend (Dragonfriend, #1)
20 " She did not need to touch surfaces to find dirt. She skimmed the air a half-inch or so above, and felt dirt. With her mind? "
