Tamora Pierce: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”

“Tris: "I was reading."
Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”

“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”

“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”

“You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel”

“We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we?
- Sandry after the pirate attack”

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”

“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”

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

“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”

“Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.”

“Most humans think the appearance of quietquiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”

“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”

“Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.”

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”