Tamora Pierce Quotes page 2

“I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.”

Source: Terrier

Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

“You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)”

“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”

“Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.”

Source: First Test

“C'mon, Coram! Let's go find an adventure!”

Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri

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

Alanna of Trebond

Tamora Pierce book Melting Stones

Source: Melting Stones

“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.”

Tamora Pierce In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce Briar's Book

Source: Briar's Book

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

“When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”

Variant: I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.

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

Tamora Pierce book Wolf-Speaker

Source: Wolf-Speaker

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

“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.”

Tamora Pierce book Lady Knight

Source: Lady Knight

“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.”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

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

Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

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

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

Tamora Pierce book Street Magic

Source: Street Magic

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

Source: First Test

Tamora Pierce book Emperor Mage

Source: Emperor Mage

“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.”

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

Source: First Test

“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.”

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

“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.”

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

Source: Terrier

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

Source: Trickster's Queen

Tamora Pierce The Realms of the Gods

Source: The Realms of the Gods

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

Tamora Pierce book Wild Magic

Source: Wild Magic

“Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?”

“And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau”

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

“I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.”

“He's just rather more lively than most fossils.”

Source: Terrier

“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

“Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.”

“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.”

Source: Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“What hasto do with the price of peas in Persopolis?”

Tamora Pierce The Realms of the Gods

Source: The Realms of the Gods

“Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.”

“Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

“A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.”

Tamora Pierce book Mastiff

Source: Mastiff

“I will tell the stork-man.”

“Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!”

“Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper”

Source: First Test

Tamora Pierce In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

“We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like… Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?… I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.”

“Thus went my first Court Day.
I think I'm going to puke.”

Source: Trickster's Choice

“Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway."
Daja: "If you know, you can stop it."
Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.”

Source: Terrier

Tamora Pierce book Sandry's Book

Source: Sandry's Book

“Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?”

Tamora Pierce book Street Magic

Source: Street Magic

“My heart bleeds buttermilk.

-Daine”