# The Dragon Queen - Author: [Alice Borchardt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt.md) - Quotes: 29 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen ## Quotes > He was conscious that something in [his] personality bolstered his confidence and allowed him to rest, to seek peace and find it. He never game a name to it, and never spoke of it. And never, never would he have allowed himself or anyone to call it – love [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-was-conscious.md) > Some men know from birth that they are expendable… they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/some-men-know.md) > Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/remember-this-central.md) > At worst, they were vile creatures who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth. At best, such behavior shows a dangerous lack of self-control. The first business of a warrior is self-restraint [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/at-worst-they.md) > the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/the-little-death.md) > Till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams” [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/till-we-meet.md) > God, to breathe. Air. You don’t know what it means until you cannot take a breath [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/god-to-breathe.md) > He said truth has a taste, and this had the taste of truth. A wolf would put it that way, but I agree it does. Some things just don’t hang together, but others do. And a lot of times when you encounter it, you say, “I don’t want this to be right, but it probably is, even though it brings me to grief.” [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-said-truth.md) > For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/for-what-is-a-flower.md) > He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever brought me more sorrow or pain or joy than he did. No, nothing, not even my sons, has ever outweighed the love I feel and still feel for him. And I believe – had I known what the future held for us: all the trouble, torment, battle, and grief of our lives – I still believe that I would have yielded my heart into his keeping as I did then [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-was-magnificent.md) > He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-is-tremendously.md) > I wish. I don’t know what I wish. That you were less I were more, perhaps. Yes, just possibly that’s it [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/i-wish-i-dont.md) > One day she would be a formidable female, a creature to be reckoned with [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/one-day-she.md) > He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-smiled-at-her.md) > I saw he was now and always would be his own man [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/i-saw-he-was.md) > I am no ordinary woman, and born to a different fate. I would not go whimpering. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/i-am-no-ordinary.md) > [he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/he-was-handsome.md) > She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/she-was-afraid.md) > You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/you-are-very.md) > For when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/for-when-women.md) > Don’t flaunt your ignorance or try to insult me. I don’t suffer fools gladly and insults irritate me [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/dont-flaunt-your.md) > Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/good-practical-intelligence.md) > And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/and-then-he-remembered.md) > It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/it-is-human.md) > I apologize.” “you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.” [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/i-apologize-you.md) > Love is important, and woman being shrewd bargainers probably know fame is not worth much. I’d much rather have something I can spend, eat, or love, thank you very much [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/love-is-important.md) > You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place” [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/you-why-do-you.md) > Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/desire-was-only.md) > Then he turned and walked away, and I gazed after him in sorrow. “Don’t look so, girl. He’s the first to fall at your feet; he will not be the last” [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-borchardt/the-dragon-queen/then-he-turned.md)