Quotes from Tamora Pierce

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

As long as there's life, there's hope.

Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

I will tell the stork-man.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows," he replied firmly. "Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

Scary with you is better than scary without you

I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

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

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

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

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.

Sandry: I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway. Daja: If you know, you can stop it. Sandry: Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think I'm going to puke.

Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Don't die on me, she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me. His eyes flickered open and he smiled. I didn't know you cared, he whispered. And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day. Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket! she whispered. Of course I care.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?