Tamora Pierce citations

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

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

“A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure”

“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.”

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

“There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna”

“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.”

“It's not just children who need heroes.”

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

“There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki”

“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!”

“It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”

“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.”