Quotes from Tamora Pierce

I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.

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

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

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?

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

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

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.

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

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

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.

Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

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

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.

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.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.