Quotes from Tamora Pierce

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

Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

That's all this job is, Daine, she explained. Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Face it, Gary told her kindly. You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

I wanted to have something good to remember about today," she replied quietly. "Something that wasn't petty and mean. Sometimes you have to provide such moments yourself.

I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don't want to fall in love

You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed, she informed him softly. Little *bitch*, he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness, she replied.

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

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.

No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.

There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse....

Wouldn't-- Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything strange? Alanna didn't look up. No. It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.

He liked me to help him when he did things. He explained what I didn't know, warned me when to stand aside, never told me to get out of his way because he could do it faster, and thanked me for helping. There were moments when he needed me to rescue him, and he never blamed me for it, or got angry about it.

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

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?

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.

If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

This is what I've come to, he said mournfully. Following little birdies

She wanted an extra advantage today, more than she'd had in training with Raoul or knights like Jerel. When the trumpet blared, she told Peachblossom, Charge. Muscles bunched under her. The gelding flew at his top speed down the dirt lane, hooves thundering in packed dust. For those brief seconds Kel felt like an army of one. She loved no one so much as her horse.