Top 100 Tamora Pierce Quotes
#1. Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.
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#2. Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
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#3. She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!
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#4. She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.
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#5. The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.
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#6. And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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#7. He knows about things like betrayal, and being afraid, and the looks on people's faces when they know you did something they thought impossible
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#8. 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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#9. I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it's just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.
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#10. I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire?" demanded Raoul, all innocence. "I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel.
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#11. Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.
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#12. I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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#14. If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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#15. Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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#16. The girl looked at the mess she had made, at the ax, the shattered immortal, and the gouts of dark blood all around, and vomited.
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#17. If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
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#18. Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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#19. Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)
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#20. And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shift, go home alive." She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard
just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.
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#21. The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.
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#22. Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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#23. I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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#24. She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
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#25. We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we?
- Sandry after the pirate attack
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#26. If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"
Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?
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#27. If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce.
'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
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#32. I wish he wouldn't do this when he's on me. It's really very upsetting.
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#33. Buri rode along with her own Group Askew and two more Rider Groups, the Sixth, called Thayet's Dogs, and the Fifteenth, Stickers.
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#35. Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.
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#36. You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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#37. 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.
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#38. You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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#39. So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
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#40. Rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time.
-beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge
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#41. I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
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#42. My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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#43. There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse ...
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#44. A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
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#45. You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.
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#46. Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.'
'Or until he kills you,' someone else said.
'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.
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#47. Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you
and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
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#48. Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
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#49. Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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#50. That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.
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#52. He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.
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#53. Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.
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#54. Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?"
Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.
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#55. And if wishes were pies, I'd weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau
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#56. 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.
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#57. We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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#60. That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
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#61. A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong.
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#64. But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do -
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#65. I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
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#66. Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
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#67. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.
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#68. Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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#69. If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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#70. We're just frisking like little captive lambkins.
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#71. I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
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#72. What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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#73. Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. "Are you trying to kill me, woman?"
"If I mean to kill someone, I do it," Rosethorn told him. "I don't try.
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#74. You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.
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#75. The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.
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#76. Wouldn't
" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?
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#77. He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--
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#78. Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.
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#79. This is what I've come to," he said mournfully. "Following little birdies
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#80. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
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#81. Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us
to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.
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#84. If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.
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#85. Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
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#87. Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
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#88. Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
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#89. They are sparkly," Nawat said. "The griffins shed them. I thought if I brought you a present that was made of discarded things, no one would punish you for having them.
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#90. He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage
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#92. As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger.
-Numair Salmalin
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#93. Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.
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#94. Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.
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#95. The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
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#96. 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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#97. What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.
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#98. What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
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#99. If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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#100. So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took?"
Aly smiled. "I'm told it runs in the family.
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