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#1

“I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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#2

“Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.”
― Tamora Pierce , Trickster's Choice

tags: aly, cat, cats, curiosity, fesgao

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#3

“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

tags: alanna, amusing, philosophy, tamora-pierce

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#4

“When in doubt, shoot the wizard.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#5

“I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wolf-Speaker

tags: apple-tree, daine, numair, tristan-staghorn, wolf-speaker

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#6

“Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: everyone, humor, scholar

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#7

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#8

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book

tags: interruption, reading, sandry, talk, tris

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#9

“There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

tags: romantic

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#10

“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

tags: neal

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#11

“I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: jousting, kel

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#12

“I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#13

“Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?”
― Tamora Pierce

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#14

“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”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

tags: humor

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#15

“I promise I will repay you.”
“Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet and plain, dark clothes. “With what?”
The smile stayed on his lips. “Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of things long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

tags: mischief, promise

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#16

“And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau ”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

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#17

“You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#18

“A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

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#19

“Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" — with an exaggerated change of mood — "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!"
"I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

tags: banter, mothers

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#20

“Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

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#21

“Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

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#22

“Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

tags: charming

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#23

“Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

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#24

“I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: humor, jokes, kel, raoul

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#25

“My heart bleeds buttermilk.

-Daine”
― Tamora Pierce

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#26

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

tags: bravery, daja, fear, friends, sandry

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#27

“This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

tags: dragons, humour, meet

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#28

“It's not just children who need heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#29

“I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
-Myles of Olau”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

tags: chivalry, code-of-chivalry, myles-of-olau

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#30

“There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

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