517 Quotes by Tamora Pierce

But I’ve only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do –.

He doesn’t need my help coming up with pranks. He’s got too many ideas of his own. – Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you’re paying attention.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It’s not giving up your family.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else’s kill.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn’t have time to sleep.

Knowing to whom she owed the new warmth, Alanna tried to thank Mari Fahrar. The old woman brushed her words aside. “All things change,” she told Alanna frankly. “It does not hurt men to know women have power, too.” Alanna had to laugh. Until Mari and Farda entered her life, she never realized that the tribeswomen viewed their men not with fear but with loving disrespect. Sometimes she felt that she was the one getting the education, not her pupils.

No can always be changed to yes, but it’s very hard to change yes to no.