If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]