Tamora Pierce

Writer

1953-12-13

Quotes by Tamora Pierce

• Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

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• It isn't just children who need heros.

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• And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about.Everyone keep warning me about sailors, I complained. Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?Granny snorted. Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!

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• There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

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• 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.

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• Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

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• Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases

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• Tris: I was reading. Sandry: You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Tris: Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

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• She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

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• This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

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• You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-I think as a human being, she retorted hotly. Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to.

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• Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

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• Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.

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• Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

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• George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

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• I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

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• Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

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• 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.

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

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