Tamora Pierce famous quotes

04-17-2025

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Rushing #Meditation #Magic
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Men #Vocabulary #Lasts
It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Heal #Harder
Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
-- Tamora Pierce

#Way #Realizing
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Ocean #Sea #Voice
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
-- Tamora Pierce

#Library
Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babiesâ€”they won't understand.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Baby #Animal #Promise
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Advice #Should #Distrust
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Reading #Dark #Fire
Curiosity killed the cat,â€ Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? â€œPeople always forget the rest of the saying,â€ she complained. â€œâ€˜And satisfaction brought it back.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Cat #Eye #Dark
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Life #Someday #Scholar
Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not wish to see that hard-charging bag of bones again, unless it is in my soup.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Boys #Wish #Bags
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

#Dog #Order #Training
What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Months #Blame #Trouble
It's not just children who need heroes.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Children #Hero #Needs
Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Hate #Cups #Lord
Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Mother #Silly #Warning
Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Color #Done #Spirit
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful! Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Prayer #Cat #Black
Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!" And I'd say, "I know, girl, buy you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Girl #Water #Care
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
-- Tamora Pierce

#Talking #Done #Lines
Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Miracle #Likes #Cheese
Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." â€” Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck
-- Tamora Pierce

#Luck #Want #Accepting
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
-- Tamora Pierce

#Needs
And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob!
-- Tamora Pierce

#Sex #Watches #Warning

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