Quotes from 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.

Beneath her calm exterior she wished fiercely that she could pound the meanness out of Joren. Even as she thought it, she knew she would do better to ignore him. Water, she thought, collecting her staff from the shed where it was kept. I am a summer lake on a windless day, clear, cool, and still. Joren is a cloud. All he can do is cast a shadow on my surface. I'll be here long after he's gone.

Have you ever noticed that when you try to deny some part of yourself, things fall out so you need that part more than any other?

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

Frostpine swivelled his head like an irate owl The air is cold, wet, and moving

The harder the goal, the more important it is

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?

Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you've changed.

It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who he really was in all this running around. (Briar)

It was plain that Nazaam and Gieyat were lovers. I'd like that, Arram thought as he followed Nazaam. To be comfortable with my lover, and laugh together, even when things are terrible. Like I do with Ozorne and Varice.

Come on, Stork Boy, aren't you excited?

A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I'm a master. I'd never have to think about the games again.

The Gentle Mother." In Ramasu's soft voice it sounded like a curse. "They took a goddess with a scythe in her hand, striding the rows of grain, and turned her to present the self of a housebound creature.

Most disasters are fast, and big. You can see everyone else's life got overturned when yours did. Houses are smashed, livestock's dead. But plagues isolate people. They shut themselves inside while disease takes a life at a time, day after day. It adds up. Whole cities break under the load of what was lost. People stop trusting each other, because you don't know who's sick.

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from The Untouchables to you: At the end of your shift, go home alive. She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard--just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.

There were real advantages to having a father who didn't care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

I respect you heaps, lady knight. I'd've thrown myself off a bridge, getting this assignment. You, you're there with lists and plans. You listen to every flap-mouthed bumpkin who thinks he can do your task better, and you answer with a smile and thanks. Why, you've inspired me to be a blessing to my fellow bumpkin, just like you.

You choose tools for a task by their crafting, not their look," a crow said crisply from a nearby tree. He flapped over to land on a barrel in front of the cottage. "A smith's finest hammer will be streaked with soot.

He has never been stripped of his voice, so he does not know how it feels to be stripped of it, even a little.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as a rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands.