Quotes from Tamora Pierce

Whatever she was, he would love her until they died

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...

Don't fight the body the gods gave you

It disgusts me," whispered Baird, "what people allow, if they think those who commit vile acts can help them to achieve some goal.

if she ever married, she hoped that she would have as much fun with it as Kol and Matazi seemed to.

Teaching was more important than personal objectives. Teaching was a serious debt that could only be repaid by correct teaching of new mages.

Dreadful events lead people to do extraordinary things

And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.

There are all kinds of courage, you'll find yours.

That was a monstrous thought - he KNEW it was monstrous. Yet he thought it all the same.

All she had was herself. It would have to do.

You don't know what you can do till you're tested.

Once you've helped your daughter give birth to your first grandson, believe me, things like proper dinnerwear aren't important.

she had changed in the smoke and the fear and the dark

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

So, you learned you can't beat everything. So you learned your human. How sad.

Buri rode along with her own Group Askew and two more Rider Groups, the Sixth, called Thayet's Dogs, and the Fifteenth, Stickers.

An account has come due. Debts must be settled.

I am a Trader and proud of it. We know that some accounts are written in blood and can be paid only in that. You have blood depts to settle.

Thats what Traders do, we find roads and we follow them.

Have you not discovered that when people, men and women, find a woman who acts intelligently, they say she acts like a man? - Character: Ali Muktab. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man

Who is a bigger idiot than the man who believes the lies he tells himself?

She must bring her song to the stone heights, to the dwellers inside. They would take her in, their sister of the mountains. They would bring her home.