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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“Feeling like you're enough has nothing to do with actually being enough --you choose whether or not you are.”
― Sara Raasch, Frost Like Night

“You are not what you've done. Who you are right now, this moment, is who you choose to be.”
― Sara Raasch, Frost Like Night

“You act as though love is a goal you only achieve after so long spent working at it. And yes, work is involved, but at the end of it all, love is a choice—the kind you have with a spouse, with your people, with yourself. If you acted on those things only when you felt them, you’d be like most people—eternally waiting for a feeling that may or may not come. But if you choose, every day, to love yourself”
― Sara Raasch, Frost Like Night

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”
― Tamora Pierce

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.”
― Tamora Pierce, Street Magic

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”
― Tamora Pierce

“Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!"
"I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

“I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.”
― Tamora Pierce

“You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men make your decisions for you. You ride as a man, you 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 fuss about being able to.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“It's not just children who need heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

“I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.”
― Tamora Pierce

“And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau ”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

“WE do try to eat," Raoul called back to her [Kel]. I go all faint if I don't get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King's Own if I fell from the saddle."
"But there was that time in Fanwood," a voice behind them said.
"That wedding in Tameran," added the blonde Sergeant Osbern, riding a horse-length behind Kel.
"Don't forget when what's-his-name, with the army, retired," yelled a third.
"Silence, insubordinate curs!" cried Raoul. "Do not sully my new squire's ears with your profane tales!"
"Even if they're TRUE?" That was Dom. It seemed Neal wasn't the only family member versed in irony.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

“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?”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.”
― Tamora Pierce

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
― Tamora Pierce

“Scary with you is better than scary without you”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

“Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.”
― Tamora Pierce, Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Mastiff

“I have loved you all my life, Mal,” I whispered through my tears. “There is no end to our story.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings