517 Quotes by Tamora Pierce

Your ma was a leech with bad teeth,” she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. “Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!

Don’t make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.

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.

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?

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?” Alanna shook her head, smiling a little. In the three years she had been disguised as a boy, she had learned that boys know girls as little as girls know boys. It didn’t make sense – people are people, after all, she thought – but that was how things were.

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.

You don’t think history gets rewritten, sometimes?

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

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.