“I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.
She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally.
"It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion."
"I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“This is what I've come to," he said mournfully. "Following little birdies”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
“You can smack some people in the face with a haddock and they’ll still call it a mouse if a mouse is what they want to see.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from First Test
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“if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.”
― Alice Schroeder, quote from The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
“İnsan ne tuhaf bir yaratıktır. Cinayetle haşır neşir, kim bilir kaç kez bir ailenin babasının, gözü yaşlı eşi ya da çaresiz çocukları için hiçbir pişmanlık yahut acıma duygusu hissetmeden, hiçbir kişisel düşmanlıklarının olmadığı bir adamın canını almış bu adamların, müziğin tatlı ve dokunaklı nağmelerine kulak verince adeta gözleri yaşarıyordu.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Valley of Fear
“Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.
At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic, and committed; among friends, unconstrained and given to teasing; with Marketa, cynical and fitfully witty; and alone (and thinking of Marketa), unsure of myself and as agitated as a schoolboy.
Was the last face the real one?
No. They were all real: I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn’t know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.)”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Joke
“I’m learning. The mick from the lanes of Limerick letting the envy hang out. I’m dealing with first-and second-generation immigrants, like myself, but I’ve also got the middle classes and the upper middle classes and I’m sneering. I don’t want to sneer but old habits die hard. It’s the resentment. Not even anger. Just resentment. I shake my head over the things that concern them, that middle-class stuff, it’s too hot, it’s too cold and this is not the toothpaste I like. Here am I after three decades in America still happy to be able to turn on the electric light or reach for a towel after the shower.”
― Frank McCourt, quote from Teacher Man
“Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
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