Tamora Pierce Quotes - Page 3

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• You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

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  Scary, Looks, Muffins

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2”, p.531, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

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  Fighting, Men, Weapons

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

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  Morning, Cat, Pleasant

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.775, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

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  Teenager, Book, Giving

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

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  Labels, Ships, Wells

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.98, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

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  Fighting, Sometimes, Sickness

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Briar's Book”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.

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  Lying, Water, Understanding

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• 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

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  Talking, Mazes, Inquiry

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• Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

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  Punishment, Trying, Mouths

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die

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  Sorry, Silly, Mistress

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• Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.

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  Horse, Cat, People

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Lioness Rampant”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

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  Shoes, Arrogance, Barefoot

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.151, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

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  Dream, Father, Writing

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• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

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  Running, Fun, Writing

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• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

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  Real, Character, Needs

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• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

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  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce, and Christopher Paolini Talk Fantasy Fiction". Interview with Dave Weich, www.highbeam.com. July 31, 2003.

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• If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

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  Knows, Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.130, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

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  Thinking, Rude, Tree

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wolf-Speaker”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

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  Reading, People, Way

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• You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

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  Boys

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.50, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

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  Mother, Tired, Asking Questions

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “First Test: Book 1 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.97, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

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  Dragons, Doe, Havens

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

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  Thinking, Make You Think, Excited

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.707, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

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  Book, Thinking, Editing

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• Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained. "He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.

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  Men, Thinking, Crow

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