517 Quotes by Tamora Pierce

The Gentle Mother.” In Ramasu’s soft voice it sounded like a curse. “They took a goddess with a scythe in her hand, striding the rows of grain, and turned her to present the self of a housebound creature.

Do we say, Oh now I’m going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

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

All things change,” she told Alanna frankly. “It does not hurt men to know women have power, too.

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

Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris,” Niko said gently. “It’s like scrying the future. You’re assailed with thousands of images – fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane.” “You learned to scry the future,” Tris pointed out. “And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad,” Niko replied, his voice very dry.

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

What good is magic, if you can’t use it to help people?

Folk in the Lower City do not tell each other how to worship, or if they do, it is not for long.