Tamora Pierce: Trending quotes (page 7)

“I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.”

“You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.”

“Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?”

“Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone."
"His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare.
"That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.”

“I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.”

“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”

“What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!”

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”

“Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.”

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”

“Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.”

“I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.”

“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.”

“Scary with you is better than scary without you”

“Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?”

“I am not wise, but I can always learn.”

“If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.”

“I’m to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.”

“Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.”