Tamora Pierce Quotes

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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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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

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If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

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Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

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Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn't died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.

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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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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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No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what's being said around her. Nevermind if a man's mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he'll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You're a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

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You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

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Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.

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

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He was overconfident, she told him. And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they'd have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works. You won because you were good he corrected her. I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.

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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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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper

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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?

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You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

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It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.

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

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

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Mithros's spear, Kel!" he exclaimed. "When did you turn into a real girl?" "You said she was a girl already," muttered one of his cousins... "But not a girl-girl, with a chest and all!" protested Owen...."I've been a girl for a while, Owen," Kel informed him. "I never realized," her too outspoken friend replied. "It's not like you've got melons or anything, they're just noticeable.

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And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!

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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?

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Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

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A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows, he replied firmly. Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

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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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I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

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

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

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