Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

...don't spoil my learning process!

What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world