Cold Fire Quotes

“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

“It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom.

"Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?”
― tamora pierce, Cold Fire

“It was like trying to balance on a pair of knife blades. Who had thought of this mad form of travel in the first place? And why had no one locked them up before they passed their dangerous ideas on to others?”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Frostpine swivelled his head like an irate owl "The air is cold, wet, and moving”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Thats what Traders do, we find roads and we follow them.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“I am a Trader and proud of it. We know that some accounts are written in blood and can be paid only in that. You have blood depts to settle.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“An account has come due. Debts must be settled.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“So, you learned you can't beat everything. So you learned your human. How sad.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“she had changed in the smoke and the fear and the dark”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Once you've helped your daughter give birth to your first grandson, believe me, things like proper dinnerwear aren't important.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“You don't know what you can do till you're tested.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“All she had was herself. It would have to do.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“That was a monstrous thought - he KNEW it was monstrous. Yet he thought it all the same.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“There are all kinds of courage, you'll find yours.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Dreadful events lead people to do extraordinary things”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Teaching was more important than personal objectives. Teaching was a serious debt that could only be repaid by correct teaching of new mages.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“if she ever married, she hoped that she would have as much fun with it as Kol and Matazi seemed to.”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Don't fight the body the gods gave you”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Usually, she liked to be big and strong, it helped her to handle iron, brass and bronze. Still, now and then she wanted a little elegance...”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“People aren't that clever mostly, are they”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Whatever she was, he would love her until they died”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire