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#1

“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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#2

“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.”
― Tamora Pierce

tags: jousting, kel

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#3

“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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#4

“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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#5

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

tags: gentry, george-cooper, humour, labels

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#6

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

170 likes

#7

“What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?”
― Tamora Pierce, The Realms of the Gods

tags: daine, peas

142 likes

#8

“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

336 likes

#9

“Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!”
― Tamora Pierce, First Test

tags: alanna, healing-balm, neal

119 likes

#10

“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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#11

“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
― Robin Hobb

tags: history

85 likes

#12

“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
― Robin Hobb

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#13

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

187 likes

#14

“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Destiny

tags: fate, heart, love

43 likes

#15

“Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

tags: fantasy

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#16

“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

tags: bestfriends, wild-pigs

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#17

“Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change.
The Fool in Fool's Fate”
― Robin Hobb

tags: beloved, catalyst, robin-hobb, the-fool

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#18

“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?
Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

tags: fitz, the-fool

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#19

“No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.”
― Robin Hobb

tags: catalyst, fitz, robin-hobb, the-fool

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#20

“Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

tags: amber, robin-hobb, the-fool

91 likes

#21

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

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#22

“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

479 likes

#23

“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

674 likes

#24

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

tags: carthak, daine, dragon, kitten

243 likes

#25

“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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