“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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“As Delphine watched, into her head there popped a strange notion: the idea that perhaps strongly experienced moments, as when Eva turned and the sun met her hair and for that one instant the symbol blazed out, those particular moments were eternal. Those moments actually went somewhere. Into a file of moments that existed out of time's range and could not be pilfered by God.”
― Louise Erdrich, quote from The Master Butchers Singing Club
“We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Lighthousekeeping
“You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster...”
― Penelope Lively, quote from Moon Tiger
“He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
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