“I told you there was no such thing as immortality, not even for dragons.”
“I would slay dragons for you,” he told her. “I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.”
“Death stripes away many things, especially when it arrives at a temperature hot enough to vaporize iron ... The immortal remains of Brother Watchtower watched the dragon flap away into the fog ....”
“You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.”
“Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.”
“Dad just told me that I'm the son of a dragon!And then he leaves?”