Sully Tarnish

“Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.”

“I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.”

“A female dragon’s tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term ‘Getting some tail’ came from?”

“The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.”

“How does one have a duel with a dragon? Well, since they live high up in the mountains, and getting all the way up there can be quite a nuisance indeed, one just has to ring the guest bell the dragons rather politely placed at the bottom many years ago when very incensed farmers kept appearing with complaints about their dwindling livestock. Dragons jokingly refer to it as “their dinner bell.”

“Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon’s opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.”

“The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.”

“You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.”

“When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.”

“When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.”

“Books are the only things worth stealing.”

“Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that’s right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.”