Top 239 Quotes & Sayings by Tamora Pierce - Page 2

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

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused. She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally. "It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion." "I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

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.

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.

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

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.

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed.

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot me," he said, placing her on her feet once more. "Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir-" Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.

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?

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

It's not just children who need heroes.

"Hello," he greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here?" Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. "The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time."

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

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

I will tell the stork-man.

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)

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.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

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

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

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.

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.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

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.

If you have to hit--hit low.

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

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

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?

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.

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

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?" She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax." My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine. "Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.

They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: "Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him?

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?

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

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

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

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.

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

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.