Quotes from Tamora Pierce

It's not just children who need heroes.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything .

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man- I think as a human being, she retorted hotly. Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.