Tamora Pierce Quotes - Page 8

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• As long as there's life, there's hope.

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  Long, Latin Proverb

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• There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

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  Power, Dear, Right Place

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.481, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

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  Doe, Money Talks, Bark

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.520, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

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  Horse, People, Sick

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.499, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

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  Girl, Fighting, Feelings

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• The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go.

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  Cities, People, Teeth

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

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  Mean, Should

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.687, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

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  Lying, Hands, Differences

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• If you have to hit--hit low.

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  Lows, Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Alanna: The First Adventure”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

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  Winning, Night, Defense

  Tamora Pierce (2017). “Alanna: The Song of the Lioness”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

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  Somewhere Else, Obnoxious

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• Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." "You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us," Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. "Thank you so much," he retorted waspishly.

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  Upset, Four, Scared

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Daja's Book”, p.52, Scholastic Inc.

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• Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

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  Hurt, Selfish, Home

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

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  People, Magic, Wish

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• Mithros's spear, Kel!" he exclaimed. "When did you turn into a real girl?" "You said she was a girl already," muttered one of his cousins... "But not a girl-girl, with a chest and all!" protested Owen. ..."I've been a girl for a while, Owen," Kel informed him. "I never realized," her too outspoken friend replied. "It's not like you've got melons or anything, they're just noticeable.

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  Girl, Cousin, Real

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• I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

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  Dog, Forever, Want

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• As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin

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  Mean, Two, Tree

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• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

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  Teenager, Book, Dark

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

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• "I am silly, now and then," Sandry admitted. "My mother said I was, anyway." "If you know, you can stop it." Carefully Daja placed a candle behind Trader Koma's image. "Then you've never been silly, or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."

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  Mother, Silly, Warning

  "Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, Book 1)". Book by Tamora Pierce, 1997.

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• Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

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  Hate, Cups, Lord

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.356, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

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  Powerful, Husband, Eye

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Emperor Mage”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

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  Land, Doe

  Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Parent, Sound, Half

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• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

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  Book, Writing, Ongoing

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• 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.

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  Color, Done, Spirit

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2”, p.218, Random House Books for Young Readers

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