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“Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.”

Tamora Pierce book Sandry's Book

Source: Sandry's Book

“Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.”

Tamora Pierce book Page

Source: Page

“You mortals are like fish
swimming in a globe of glass.
That globe is your world.
You do not see beyond it.”

Tamora Pierce book Lady Knight

Source: Lady Knight

“I believe in deeds, not words.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense
--Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry”

Tamora Pierce

“I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.”

Tamora Pierce book Melting Stones

Source: Melting Stones

“Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.”

Tamora Pierce

Source: Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”

Tamora Pierce book The Will of the Empress

Source: The Will of the Empress

“George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“it's your own fault for encouraging him…, you know. Now he thinks he's a human being.
Neal of Queens cove”

Tamora Pierce book Page

Source: Page

“Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.”

Tamora Pierce Lioness Rampant

Source: Lioness Rampant

“Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.”

Tamora Pierce book Mastiff

Source: Mastiff

“Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.”

Tamora Pierce book Mastiff

Source: Mastiff

“You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.”

Tamora Pierce The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”

Tamora Pierce In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

“I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.”

Tamora Pierce