Book of Quotes

Balanced on the Blade's Edge

Dragon Blood: Balanced on the Blade's Edge by Lindsay Buroker

- "Ridge has never been in charge of anything larger than a flier squadron - what's he supposed to do with a frozen fortress full of murderers and rapists? Not to mention the strange woman who shows up right before he arrives . . ."

- "If Colonel Zirkander figures out who she truly is, he'll be duty-bound to sentence her to the only acceptable punishment for sorcerers: death"

- "'Seven gods, Ridge. Every time you see me, I wonder anew how you got so many bars on your collar.'

'It's a mystery to me as well, sir.'"

- "'You're forty years old, Colonel. Are you ever going to grow up?'

'I've been told it's more likely I'll be shot down first.'"

- "'According to my report, you broke Diplomat Serenson's nose, bruised his ribs, and threatened to tip off his penis. Any of that sound familiar?'

'Oh,' Ridge said, nodding. 'Yes, it does. Although, I believe it was his flesh pole I threatened to rip off. There were ladies present, and some find anatomically correct terms too blunt for polite company.'"

- "What kind of man prayed to what kind of god for a woman to rape? Or maybe the deluded miner thought she would willingly jump into his arms because he had dug her out?"

- "'Just want to make sure I get my parka back,' he muttered."

- "Sardelle supposed it would be immature of her to wish she was standing outside the door of that medic's office, so she could listen to the two explaining how they had both come to have the same rash on their genitals."

- "They're being prescribed a cream. And a suggestion that they stay out of each other's pant."

- "It wasn't Sardelle. He told himself that his relief was uncalled for - someone was still dead, choked to death by a rope made from torn and braided lines, dangling from a water pipe crossing the ceiling"

- "Yes, your new commanding officer talks to himself"

- "Listen, just because he's couth enough to look into your eyes instead of at your boobs doesn't mean he doesn't find you attractive."

- "That's what you get for imagining him in bed"

- "Given what I've seen, heard, and been propositioned with today, I'd guess they would think I was sleeping with you rather than spying for you."

- "It had been as if he were some sexually starved inmate who couldn't control himself"

- "'I have not been out here nearly long enough to be that desperate to get with a woman.' Ridge blew on his mug of steaming coffee, fresh from the little stove in the break room downstairs. 'Though apparently I've been here long enough to start talking to myself.'"

- "I need an ice bath, not coffee"

- "She hadn't expected to find out Tace was the murderer . . . or that Bretta was someone who had denied him sex in the past - and used her brawn to protect the other woman from him as well."

- "Zirkander leaned toward her, and she dropped her shield before he bumped into it. He picked her up and carried behind a couple of thick trees before setting her on her feet."

- "A really loud, creepier-than-a-haunted-battlefield hawk"

- "'I ought to tackle you,' he growled, his voice right behind her"

- "More like, you don't want to spend the night alone in the cave without his company"

- "And here I thought you were overcome by the euphoria of surviving and wanted to fling your arms around me for a kiss."

- "My learning to play the trombone one summer. I thought I sounded fabulous"

- "For all he knew, magical owl claws could give a man rabies"

- "In tropical climates, not at all. Even in temperate climates, I might wander about shirtless, but here . . . I haven't quite acclimated to the icicles dangling from my nostrils in the mornings yet."

- "I suppose that means I needn't worry about you wishing to engage in . . . convivial activities with me tonight then, activities that might require the shedding of clothing"

- "Although, for the record, men don't need to expose a whole lot of skin to get convivial."

- "It seemed the perfect time to cuddle with a woman. All right, cuddling wasn't quite what he had in mind"

- "Thank you for your bluntness. When you're not busy sounding like a teenager, you sound like my grandmother"

- "I threatened to rip off the wrong diplomat's cock"

- "But I was afraid I lacked the sexual allure and charisma for the task"

- "Had she just received an offer to breed? And from an utter stranger? How romantic?"

- "These crystals you value so much, they're meaningless to me. They were our light fixtures."

- "Want to rub my dragon?"