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#1

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

#2

“I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted.

Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up."

"We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring.”
― Tamora Pierce (Page) , Page

tags: kel, neal, page

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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

“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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#5

“When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

tags: knighthood, raoul

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#6

“Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that first day.

Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody minded-savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

tags: humourous, neal, owen

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#7

“I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”
― Tamora Pierce, First Test

tags: nealan

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#8

“But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#9

“You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: boys, daine, fighting, misogyny, owned

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#10

“Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: gentry, george-cooper, humour, labels

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#11

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

tags: carthak, daine, dragon, kitten

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#12

“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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#13

“A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.”
― Tamora Pierce, Page

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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

“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

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#16

“She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Queen

tags: alianne

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#17

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

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#18

“I will tell the stork-man.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: cloud, immortals, numair

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#19

“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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#20

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

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#21

“What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!”
― Tamora Pierce

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#22

“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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#23

“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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#24

“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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#25

“I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: humor

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#26

“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.”
― Tamora Pierce, Terrier

tags: beka-cooper, fantasy

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#27

“Tortall and the Queens Riders!”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

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#28

“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

“I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.”
― Tamora Pierce

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#31

“Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?”
― Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic

tags: daine, tortall

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