“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“You mortals are like fish
swimming in a globe of glass.
That globe is your world.
You do not see beyond it.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male – I hesitate to say ‘man’ – or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?”
One of the new women snorted. Others snickered.
Kel looked at the man, who was momentarily speechless. “If I disagree with you, should I place blame on the misworkings of your manhood? Or do I refrain from so serious an insult” – she made a face – “far more serious, of course, than your hint that I am a whore. Because my mother taught me courtesy, I only suggest that my monthlies will come long after your hair has escaped your head entirely.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“I knew it!" he cried, jubilant. "I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've seen
the likes of her, boys," he said, turning towards the other convicts as he pointed at Kel. "We was all outlaws, livin' on the edges, and this bunch of pages stumbled into our camp. We chased 'em back in a canyon, and her -" he jabbed his finger at Kel - "she gutted ol' Breakbone Dell, and him the meanest dog-skinner you'd ever hope to meet. Stood there afoot, her and her spear, cool as meltwater with Breakbone ridin' down on her with that neck-cutter sword of his. First time she got 'im in the leg, second in the tripes, and he was done. Her and six lads held us all back, just them. There she was, eyes like stone and that bloody spear in her hand. Lady." He bowed deep.
Kel looked at him, not sure what to say. Finally she asked, "What's your name, soldier?"
"Me? Gilab Lofts - Gil. Lady. It's - it's good to see you well." He bowed again and returned to his
seat, whispering with the men on either side of him.
Kel waited for them to quiet once again before she said ruefully, "I'm not sure that being known for
gutting a man is exactly a recommendation for a commander."
"It is in the north!" cried someone. Several men laughed outright; others grinned.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
“I hate those things,” grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Lady Knight
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“I suppose, like most young people nowadays, boredom is what you dread most in the world, and yet, I can assure you, there are worse things.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Towards Zero
“You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built a shrine or a temple or even a shack in the name of Tia. In the Great Book, her name is never mentioned again. He never mused about her or even asked where she was buried. Tia was a virgin. She was beautiful. She was poor. And she was a girl. It was her duty to sacrifice her life for his.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, quote from Who Fears Death
“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical strength, his own brains and being. Four years, he had earned his own bread and keep, fended for himself, had not only remained alive and well but had put together a small fishing fleet of his own, and kept it alive and functioning and fought the wind and the weather and met a payroll of eleven men in his crews-and be damned with the lot of them if he'd go into a funk over which spoon or knife to use.”
― Howard Fast, quote from The Immigrants
“Y en aquel reducto solitario me ponía a escribir cuentos. Ahora advierto que escribía cada vez que era infeliz, que me sentía solo o desajustado con el mundo en que me había cado nacer. Y pienso si no será siempre así, que el arte de nuestro tiempo, ese arte tenso y desgarrado, nazca invariablemente de nuestro desajusdte, de nuestra ansiedad y nuestro descontento.”
― Ernesto Sabato, quote from On Heroes and Tombs
“Milton says, “The mind can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.” I try remind myself daily that success and failure have less to do with actual results but rather how we choose to respond to the results. You can squander success and you can overcome failure. You can flourish or you can flounder. Sometimes it’s about choosing which feelings to fight and which feelings to follow.”
― Hannah Hart, quote from Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
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