Accept it,” Rakturan said. “I am different than the man you first met.” “So quickly?” “What is time? A thousand years can pass in a single day.

Revenge wasn’t what I had in mind. Protection was.""We can only do what is in our power to achieve.""In that case, we were going to have to find more power.

And we’d all live happily ever after... "Okay, that was a nice daydream, but maybe it’s time to come back to reality.

Your mutual misunderstandings make me squirm. It’s like watching a dragonlet flame his own tail.

We were the Colors of our dragons whether we lived or died. There were no other choices for us.

I was losing friends too quickly, whether by having them stolen or by having them give up on me. It was a terrible feeling.

Don’t look like that. Anything worth doing is worth risking for. Now, let’s get to work.

Foreign princes rarely ask to see Initiates by name. And by ‘rarely’ I mean ‘never.

And then what? "And then I will show you a trick that dragons have."A tiny flicker of hope sprang to life in my heart. "Oh, it should be more than a flicker. Haven’t you heard? We dragons can light anything ablaze.