517 Quotes by Tamora Pierce

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

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

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.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

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.

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.