Love is not necessary for sex.

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.

I think I’ll just go take a shower,” I said. It wasn’t until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I’d just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.