Tamora Pierce Quotes

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“If you have to hit--hit low.”

“Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My heart bleeds buttermilk.

-Daine”