Tamora Pierce Quotes

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

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

We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

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.

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle

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

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.

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

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

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.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?

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

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.

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

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

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.