Quotes from Tamora Pierce

I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it's just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work. It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself. I never! gasped Sarra, indignant. You taught me when you were murdered in your own house, Daine said quietly.

It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them.

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.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

Lokeij whistled. "Make the king's warriors vanish if they come. . . what a deceitful turtledove you are." Aly smiled at the sky. "Oh, don't,"she replied in the tones of a flirtatious court lady. "Stop, I insist. Your flattery makes me blush.

Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.

She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.

Adults and pups alike, they surrounded her in the greeting ceremony, licking her face and wagging their tails. Brokefang let the girl hug him fiercely about the neck and nuzzled her in reply.

You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.

Does she ever get sick from eating human food? Kaddar watched as the dragon managed to dump half the water down her throat and half all over herself. Daine smiled. She never gets sick from anything, Once she ate a box of myrrh. She was only three months old. I thought every little accident she had would harm her for life. She didn't get sick? She burped smoke for a week, that's all.

The wolf who sings alone is not happy.

Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that! Flatten your fur, Weiryn, replied the badger. What makes you think I had a choice? The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so? I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag.

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.

Cats must always be cats, even when they are gods, or constellations.

Knowing to whom she owed the new warmth, Alanna tried to thank Mari Fahrar. The old woman brushed her words aside. "All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too." Alanna had to laugh. Until Mari and Farda entered her life, she never realized that the tribeswomen viewed their men not with fear but with loving disrespect. Sometimes she felt that she was the one getting the education, not her pupils.

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!

She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!

New learning never hurt anybody.

The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.