Tamora Pierce idézet

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“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.”

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”

“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?”