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

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Tamora Pierce Humor Obedience

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

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Tamora Pierce Everyone Humor Scholar

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Beka Cooper Harmlessness Humor Tortall

Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it.Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Humor

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

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Tamora Pierce Humor

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Humor Jokes Kel Raoul

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

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Tamora Pierce Alanna Friends Humor

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.

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Tamora Pierce Alanna Amusing Philosophy Tamora Pierce

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

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Tamora Pierce Lying Truth

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Afterlife God Worship

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Courting Handsome Infatuation Romance

As long as there's life, there's hope.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Hope Life Thought Provoking

That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not known that the mages of the Chain had been laboring to eliminate any mages who had worked magic on the Crown’s behalf. So far they had killed seven of the most powerful.Chelaol would call this count of the dead another ‘good start,’ Aly thought grimly. This crude business of counting up lives taken struck her as a bad idea. It took the horror from death. When Ochobu named four mages on Lombyn who had had been killed in the streets of their towns, it had been about numbers, not lives. Maybe this is how you become a Rittevon, she thought. You get used to the dead being described as numbers, not fathers or daughters or grandparents.She turned to Dove when Ochobu finished, 'don’t ever be like this,' she urged. 'don’t think that it doesn’t matter if you only hear of murder as a number. If you keep it at a distance.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Death Life Murder

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Marriage Relationships

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

Tamora Pierce Bravery Daja Fear Friends Sandry

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

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Tamora Pierce Fear

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Friendship Loyalty

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

Tamora Pierce Alanna Friendship George

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

Tamora Pierce Conscience Evvy People Rosethorn

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

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Tamora Pierce Humour Stereotypes

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

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Tamora Pierce Gentry George Cooper Humour Labels

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Dragons Humour Meet

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

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Tamora Pierce Acting Change Change The World

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.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Interruption Reading Sandry Talk Tris

Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Cooperation Crane Daja Lark Rosethorn Work

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Beka Cooper Bloodhound Clary Goodwin Goodwin Money Tamora Pierce

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.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Beka Cooper Fantasy

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

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Tamora Pierce Power

It isn't just children who need heros.

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Tamora Pierce Children Hero

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Feminism Not All Men

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Magic Power Of Speech Words

Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful!Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Blasphemy Gods Prayer

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

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Tamora Pierce Life And Living Magic Meditation

New learning never hurt anybody.

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Tamora Pierce Good Learn Learning New Teach Teaching

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--To speak of it? asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Death Loss Poison From The Memory Ranting Talking Venting

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help.Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Anger Bad News Blame Dread Grief Guilt Justice Response

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Disappointment Friends Homosexuality

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

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Briar Man Men Rosethorn

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

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Tamora Pierce Men Right In The Feels Sire Myles

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

~ Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Love Men
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