Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion.

For Colin Firth: You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.

He did a very good impression of a stone column.

This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?