| Lioness Rampant Quotes |
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| The guards hid their smiles as they looked the noble over-in size the beardless youth could have well been a squire, w/ only a shield to reveal his higher rank. They wondered if the youngster could even hold his lance, let alone unseat an opponent w/ it. "Tounge & paws are all I need." "Is that why you smell after a night in the woods?" -Faithful & Alanna Moonlight atared at her mistress, wondering why Alanna had chosen to dismount & sit in the mud. "Swearing doesn't help. Besides, you woke me up." "Does your worship want me to pull the curtains so the light won't hurt your eyes? Shall I call you for the noon meal, or will you sleep the day out?" "There's no talking to you when you're like this." -Faitful & Alanna, after Alanna falls off Moonlight "Life used to be simple." "Probably more boring, too." -Faithful & Coram "Nobles rarely know as much as they think they do-not about the real world." -Liam "Practice till it hurts." -Liam "The next time you're told someone's Shang, pay attention." -Liam "Shame your mother didn't drown you at birth." "What makes you think she didn't?" -Alanna & Buri "I'd have to blind not to recognize a daughter of the Wilima House." "Sadly I do take after my father." -Liam & Thayet "She has the bluest blood in Tortall. There was never a zhir or jin anythin' fit t'polish a Trebond boot." "Coram." "The family's in the Book of Gold. No zhir or even zhirit were writ down till the Book of Silver." -Coram & Alanna "Next time I go after something, I hope it's in a dusty corner where no one sees or cares if I take it." -Alanna "We heard about you in my father's court. The majority opinion was that you should be burned, although one group held out for death by torture." -Thayet "Do you? (trust me)" "Of course I don't. I don't trust anyone." -Roger & Thom "Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard." -George "Hello Roger. You look pale. Not enough time in the sun?" "You're cocky, aren't you? Killed anyone recently?" "No. It's so depressing to come back & find one's work reversed." -Alanna & Roger "Girls play at bein' Lioness. I saw one chasin' her brother down the street, wavin' a stick & callin' for the Conte Duke to submit to her sword." -the Lord Provost "Your artwork's improved. The one you did of Delia made her look like a cow. Though now that I think of it, maybe that was your subject matter-" -Alanna "I'm told you were Jonathan's lover once. Is that why he made you Champion?" "I'd told you replaced me in his affections for a little while. Why didn't he make you Prime Minister?" - Josiane & Alanna "I don't waste time in conversations w/ sluts, Josiane. Neither should you." -Delia "Not bad-if you like Ordeals." -Jon, speaking of the Ordeal of Kings "Time to go home."-Faithful, when he "dies" "Is this what it means to be the best, Alex?" -Alanna, after killing Alex "He expects you to fight. So-stop fighting." -the aloof part of Alanna during her meeting w/ Roger "People in love are boring." -Buri "So I finally tamed myself a Lioness." -George "Why? Why must you make me respectable?"-George |