You are an... animal? A talking animal?" Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.