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Tamora Pierce

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SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Who buy...
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Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
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TAMORA PIERCE I--buy, and I sell."
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TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
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TAMORA PIERCE It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
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TAMORA PIERCE I bet his mother was a wyvern.
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TAMORA PIERCE You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
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- Daja refer...
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"You're as...
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He smiled. "Sooner or later you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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Bri...
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TAMORA PIERCE Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren'...
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TAMORA PIERCE If you have to hit--hit low.
TAMORA PIERCE I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
TAMORA PIERCE I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against h...
TAMORA PIERCE Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!
TAMORA PIERCE You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If...
TAMORA PIERCE A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
TAMORA PIERCE We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
TAMORA PIERCE Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)
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TAMORA PIERCE Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.
TAMORA PIERCE He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him...
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TAMORA PIERCE Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.
TAMORA PIERCE Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)
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TAMORA PIERCE Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?"
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TAMORA PIERCE I said I fell down.
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' ey...
TAMORA PIERCE If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"
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TAMORA PIERCE I believe in deeds, not words.
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"I should hope so. You're the wo...
TAMORA PIERCE I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm...
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TAMORA PIERCE Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off,
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TAMORA PIERCE The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.
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TAMORA PIERCE Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummo...
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TAMORA PIERCE Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
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TAMORA PIERCE She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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TAMORA PIERCE Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound...
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TAMORA PIERCE What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me f...
TAMORA PIERCE Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheek...
TAMORA PIERCE And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in ...
TAMORA PIERCE Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him ...
TAMORA PIERCE Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am....
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TAMORA PIERCE When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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TAMORA PIERCE I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
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TAMORA PIERCE Lokeij whistled. “Make the king’s warriors vanish if
they come. . . what a deceitful turtle...
TAMORA PIERCE We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.
TAMORA PIERCE A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let com...
TAMORA PIERCE Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead.
Alanna shook her head....
TAMORA PIERCE Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!
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TAMORA PIERCE A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, to...
TAMORA PIERCE Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
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TAMORA PIERCE You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.
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TAMORA PIERCE You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who...
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TAMORA PIERCE Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
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I think I'm going to puke.
TAMORA PIERCE I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
TAMORA PIERCE Funfunfunfunfun!
TAMORA PIERCE He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
TAMORA PIERCE Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...
TAMORA PIERCE Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
TAMORA PIERCE Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.
TAMORA PIERCE Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
TAMORA PIERCE Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper
TAMORA PIERCE Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
TAMORA PIERCE Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
TAMORA PIERCE I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
TAMORA PIERCE A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for sayin...
TAMORA PIERCE When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing ...
TAMORA PIERCE I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
TAMORA PIERCE A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. TAMORA PIERCE Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
TAMORA PIERCE Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
TAMORA PIERCE cheek.
TAMORA PIERCE Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...
TAMORA PIERCE I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps mi...
TAMORA PIERCE I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?
TAMORA PIERCE You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.
TAMORA PIERCE Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accus...
TAMORA PIERCE Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and t...
TAMORA PIERCE I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...
TAMORA PIERCE You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she ret...
TAMORA PIERCE You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.

"...
TAMORA PIERCE I will tell the stork-man.
TAMORA PIERCE I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.

She sat back and stared at him. Sh...
TAMORA PIERCE We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!"
Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, yo...
TAMORA PIERCE (AUTHOR) Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN