Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

I go where the lizards tell me.

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.