Tamora Pierce Quotes

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

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  Rushing, Meditation, Magic

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

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  Growing, Daffodil, Resemblance

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Page: Book 2 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.110, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

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  Men, Vocabulary, Lasts

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.614, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

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  Reading, Dark, Fire

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales”, p.61, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

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  Heal, Harder

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not wise, but I can always learn.

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  Wise, I Can

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

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  Tamora Pierce (2003). “Trickster's Choice”, p.8, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

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  Change, Novelists, Way

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

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  Book, Yardsticks, Wealth

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• Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

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  Stupid, Hard

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Lioness Rampant”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

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  Heart, Mind, Library

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• 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." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

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  Luck, Want, Accepting

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• Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

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  Life, Someday, Scholar

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

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  Library

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• Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

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  Girl, Hero, Population

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• Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

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  Humorous, People, Now And Then

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “Melting Stones”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

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  Hero

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Lioness Rampant”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

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  Confused, Years, People

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.829, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

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  Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Fear, Sleep, Dark

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle Opens #03”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

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  Needs, Dove, Lonesome

  "The Big Bang Theory: The Proton Regeneration". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• 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.

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  Ocean, Sea, Voice

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Circle of Magic #1: Sandry's Book”, p.79, Scholastic Inc.

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• Scary with you is better than scary without you

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  Scary, Scared, Without You

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Emperor Mage”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

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  Girl, Boys, Insult

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “In the Hand of the Goddess”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not just children who need heroes.

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  Children, Hero, Heroism

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