Tamora Pierce Quotes

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

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

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

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

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

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.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

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

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

I will tell the stork-man.

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

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

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.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

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.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

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

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

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.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

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?

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

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

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

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

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

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

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

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

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.

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