“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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“anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.
at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Princess on the Brink
“The woods grew increasingly dense as Wolf walked farther from the castle. A hoot from an owl just overhead made Aralorn-the-mouse cringe tighter against his neck. “Lots of nasties in these woods,” she said in a mouselike voice devoid of all but a hint of humor.
“And I,” announced Wolf in a grim voice that was designed to let Aralorn know that it was time to be serious, “am the nastiest of all.”
“Are you really?” asked Aralorn in an interested sort of tone. “Oh, I just adore nasties.”
Wolf stopped and looked at the mouse sitting innocently on his shoulder. Most people cowered under that look. Aralorn began, industriously, to clean her whiskers. When Wolf started to walk again, though, she said in a stage whisper, “I really do, you know.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Masques
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics.”
― C.J. Cherryh, quote from Downbelow Station
“¿Conoce esa sensación? Seguro que sí: tropezarse con un artista cuyo trabajo te habla tan directamente que es como si los dos compartieran el mismo lenguaje cómplice, y eso a la vez te reafirmara en lo que siempre has pensado y te dijera algo completamente nuevo. (...) ¿No la ha sentido, entonces?”
― Jonathan Coe, quote from What a Carve Up!
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