Tamora Pierce: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?”

“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed.”

“She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.”

“The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE.
If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping
And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,
Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em
I Will NEVER Let Them Go.”

“I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”

“But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.”

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”

“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”

“I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”

“You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.”

“Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.”

“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”

“You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.”

“The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.”

“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”

“When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”

“If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.”

“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”