Tamora Pierce Quotes - Page 2

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

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.

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.

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.

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you-and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

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

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?"
The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and-and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-

Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.

Funfunfunfunfun!

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