I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?