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I will tell the stork-man.
— Tamora Pierce
Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
— Tamora Pierce
A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
— Tamora Pierce
Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.
— Tamora Pierce
Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
— Tamora Pierce
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.
— Tamora Pierce
Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Briar: "No - if she bit him, he'd die. — Tamora Pierce
Briar: "No - if she bit him, he'd die. — Tamora Pierce
A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
— Tamora Pierce
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
— Tamora Pierce
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
— Tamora Pierce
She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
— Tamora Pierce
Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
— Tamora Pierce
The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.
— Tamora Pierce
It's not just children who need heroes.
— Tamora Pierce
But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do -
— Tamora Pierce
Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!
— Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-- — Tamora Pierce
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-- — Tamora Pierce
My heart bleeds buttermilk.
-Daine — Tamora Pierce
-Daine — Tamora Pierce
He is a horse who will burn and bloat and explode in the sun. Put him back in the oven and let him cook until he's done.
— Tamora Pierce
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
— Tamora Pierce
If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
— Tamora Pierce
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)
— Tamora Pierce
Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
— Tamora Pierce
You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.
— Tamora Pierce
If thanks was what I wanted," Sandry replied in the same language, "I would be sad indeed. Since I don't want it, I won't miss it.
— Tamora Pierce
We are what we're made to be.
— Tamora Pierce
Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die
— Tamora Pierce
Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.
— Tamora Pierce
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?
— Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
Thus went my first Court Day.
I think i'm going to puke. — Tamora Pierce
I think i'm going to puke. — Tamora Pierce
I believe in deeds, not words.
— Tamora Pierce
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
— Tamora Pierce
Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.'
Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off, — Tamora Pierce
Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off, — Tamora Pierce
There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse ...
— Tamora Pierce
Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.
— Tamora Pierce
If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.
— Tamora Pierce
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
— Tamora Pierce
Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill! — Tamora Pierce
Neal: Youth and skill! — Tamora Pierce
Buri rode along with her own Group Askew and two more Rider Groups, the Sixth, called Thayet's Dogs, and the Fifteenth, Stickers.
— Tamora Pierce
Faithful: When will you learn to leave well enough alone?
Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess. — Tamora Pierce
Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess. — Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
— Tamora Pierce
I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don't want to fall in love,
— Tamora Pierce
Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
— Tamora Pierce
I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
— Tamora Pierce
You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
— Tamora Pierce
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
All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.
— Tamora Pierce
Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want. — Tamora Pierce
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want. — Tamora Pierce
A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure — Tamora Pierce
- I'm not sure — Tamora Pierce
Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
— Tamora Pierce
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce
You've been nipping at cook's wine!!
— Tamora Pierce
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
— Tamora Pierce
Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you? — Tamora Pierce
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you? — Tamora Pierce
New learning never hurt anybody.
— Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
The god inside the man glanced at Aly. "This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear."
Aly beamed at him. "So it is. And the game begins. — Tamora Pierce
Aly beamed at him. "So it is. And the game begins. — Tamora Pierce
We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.
— Tamora Pierce
Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.
— Tamora Pierce
It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
— Tamora Pierce
It isn't just children who need heros.
— Tamora Pierce
Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift — Tamora Pierce
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift — Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
— Tamora Pierce
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
— Tamora Pierce
You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?
— Tamora Pierce
Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said!"
"I heard a fart," Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel — Tamora Pierce
"I heard a fart," Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel — Tamora Pierce
It's your own fault for encouraging him ... , you know. Now he thinks he's a human being.
Neal of Queens cove — Tamora Pierce
Neal of Queens cove — Tamora Pierce
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.
— Tamora Pierce
I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
— Tamora Pierce
This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
— Tamora Pierce
And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.
— Tamora Pierce
But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
— Tamora Pierce
I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp — Tamora Pierce
-Scamp — Tamora Pierce