The Will of the Empress Quotes

“Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.

"Little *bitch*," he snapped.

Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public,” Vedris always said. “They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Things change,” Daja said softly. “We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It’s safer.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Maybe it takes a coward more courage—not less—to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Wishes are toys your mind plays with while pirates sneak up behind.”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress

“Who is a bigger idiot than the man who believes the lies he tells himself?”
― Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress