Quotes About Beka

#1. Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.'
Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off,

Tamora Pierce

#2. Dale: "No, no
curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Tamora Pierce

#3. i want you so much I feel like I'm going to explode."
"I hear that Marines are good with explosions," Beka said.

Deborah Blake

#4. What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.

Tamora Pierce

#5. Members of the court still talked in whispers of the lady-in-waiting who had accidentally worn mismatched stockings to an afternoon tea. They said she made a lovely rosebush, always festooned with stunning flowers in two slightly different colors of peach.
Beka didn't aspire to be a rosebush.

Deborah Blake

#6. 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.

Tamora Pierce

#7. 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

Tamora Pierce

#8. 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.

Tamora Pierce

#9. The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.

Tamora Pierce

#10. I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

Rip Torn

#11. When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Patti Smith

#12. Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said ... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's shell.

Tamora Pierce

#13. Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Tamora Pierce

#14. I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

Tamora Pierce

#15. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

Socrates

#16. But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it - to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?

G. Bruce Boyer

#17. It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Broderick Crawford

#18. You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Tamora Pierce

#19. He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.

Tamora Pierce

#20. But it was too late. I had seen, and seeing then became the habit of my life. Never again was I able to avert my eyes or leave the veil that covers so many truths untouched.

Susan Speranza

#21. Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

Tamora Pierce

#22. I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

Maya Lin

#23. N the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. The problems in our world will never be solved by people who hate and use violence but will be solved by people who use love and kindness, as their weapons showing humanity repeatedly that they truly care.
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#25. 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.

Tamora Pierce

#26. Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

Florence Welch

#27. If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.

Tamora Pierce

#28. 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