rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.