She sighed. Loudly. Physical appearance is not what is important.Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.

~ Vivian Vande Velde

Vivian Vande Velde Appearance Funny Geek Girls Heir Apparent

And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

~ Vivian Vande Velde

Vivian Vande Velde Age Humor

Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens. Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.

~ Vivian Vande Velde

Vivian Vande Velde Dragons Historical Fiction