Tamora Pierce Quotes
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Scary with you is better than scary without you
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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.
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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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?
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Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
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It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die
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Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
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If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?
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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.
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It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
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Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge
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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage
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You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
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We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
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They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: "Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him?
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
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Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
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