""Kel: He says he's changed.
Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up.
Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring.""
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

"You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs."
— Tamora Pierce

"Kel grinned, but said "You know, orgres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound," he admitted cheerfully. "I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself."
Kel groaned and punched him in the shoulder."
— Tamora Pierce (First Test)

"I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months."
— Tamora Pierce

"Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!"
— Tamora Pierce

"The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself."
— Neal A. Maxwell (The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book)

"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead."
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

"Only those with a conscience can find an action unconscionable."
— F.D. Crandall