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#1

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce

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#2

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

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#3

“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: jousting, kel

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#4

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: everyone, humor, scholar

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#5

“When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#6

“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wolf-Speaker

tags: apple-tree, daine, numair, tristan-staghorn, wolf-speaker

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#7

“A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.
- I'm not sure”
― Tamora Pierce, The Immortals

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#8

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

tags: humour, stereotypes

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#9

“When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: knighthood, raoul

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#10

“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

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#11

“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#12

“You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: boys, daine, fighting, misogyny, owned

290 likes

#13

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

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#14

“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

tags: bravery, daja, fear, friends, sandry

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#15

“Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that first day.

Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody minded-savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

tags: humourous, neal, owen

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#16

“Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: gentry, george-cooper, humour, labels

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#17

“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

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#18

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

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#19

“I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”
― Tamora Pierce, First Test

tags: nealan

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#20

“Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

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#21

“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

tags: charming

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#22

“But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#23

“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”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

tags: humor

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#24

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

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#25

“I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: jousting, kel

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#26

“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

tags: neal

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#27

“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. ”
― Tamora Pierce, Terrier

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#28

“I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#29

“Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?”
― Tamora Pierce

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#30

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Terrier

tags: beka-cooper, fantasy

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