Top 239 Quotes & Sayings by Tamora Pierce - Page 3

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.

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.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

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.

Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.

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

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.

Tortall and the Queens Riders!

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" Briar shrugged. "Just thought I'd mention it." Niko glared.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!" "I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.

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.

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.

You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning.

Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.

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.

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

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.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

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.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

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.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

Ozorne, my precious, where are you? - Rikash Moonsword

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

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?

Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." "You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke.

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