Tamora Pierce Wiki:Quote of the week
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[edit] Promoted quotes
[edit] Emelan
[edit] Sandry's Book 1
- Niko: "Hop in. The landlady says you don't sleep in one of her beds until you've bathed. I have to admit, I would welcome the change myself."
- Briar: "That stuff's unhealthy. Maybe you wouldn't be so bony if you stopped doing this all the time."
- Niko: "My thinness has nothing to do with bathing. Do you undress yourself, or must we do it for you?"
- — Niko and Briar concerning Briar's initial aversion to bathing[src]
[edit] Sandry's Book 2
- Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway."
- Daja: "If you know, you can stop it."
- Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."
- — Sandry and Daja on their first day at Discipline cottage[src]
[edit] Sandry's Book 3
[edit] Sandry's Book 4
[edit] Sandry's Book 5
[edit] Tris's Book 1
[edit] Tris's Book 2
- "We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we?"
- —Sandry to Tris during the pirate attack[src]
[edit] Tris's Book 3
- Niko: "Have you any ideas about what area of your talents we should concentrate on?"
- Tris: "I need to learn control, Niko--for real. With everything. I think the rest has to wait. I don't want this to happen again. Not ever."
- Niko: "At least you know it. You could have been another Enahar, living off human pain."
- — Niko and Tris after the pirate attack[src]
[edit] Tris's Book 4
- Daja: "How do you know it will be cooler?"
- Tris: "Am I the weather-witch around here or not? I know."
- — Daja Kisubo and Trisana Chandler on a hot day at Discipline cottage[src]
[edit] Tris's Book 5
- "He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own."
- —Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage[src]
[edit] Daja's Book 1
- Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
- Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want."
- — Trisana Chandler and Rosethorn after the dedicate set Tris and Briar Moss to making burn salve in Gold Ridge[src]
[edit] Street Magic 1
[edit] Cold Fire 1
- "The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends."
- —Daja Kisubo referring to Sandry in a conversation with Niamara Bancanor about courage[src]
[edit] The Will of the Empress 1
[edit] The Will of the Empress 2
- Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
- Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do."
- — Ishabal Ladyhammer and Trisana Chandler the first day at the Namornese court[src]
[edit] Melting Stones 1
- Rosethorn: "Evvy and I have an understanding. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us."
- Azaze: "Is this Evvy such a handful? She seemed well enough last night."
- Rosethorn: "As much as my student -- her former teacher -- Briar was a handful. He and I had a similar understanding."
- — Rosethorn to Headwoman Azaze before the council meeting[src]
[edit] Melting Stones 2
- "I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be."
- —Rosethorn to Evvy after Evvy discovered that Mount Grace was actually a volcano[src]
[edit] Melting Stones 3
[edit] Melting Stones 4
[edit] Tortall
[edit] Alanna: The First Adventure 1
- "You have good taste in enemies, even if you do make them your first day here."
- —Prince Jonathan to Alanna of Trebond, disguised as a boy, after her first fight with Ralon of Malven[src]
[edit] The Woman Who Rides Like a Man 1
- "You two have given me the death I did not hope to have, lying at peace among friends. Halef Seif sent you? I prayed he could help. Never think you came too late. My life was over when they laid hands on me a week ago. How could I live knowing the ones I had brought into the world and cared for wanted me dead?"
- —The sorceress of Alois to Alanna of Trebond and Olau and Coram Smythesson[src]
[edit] The Woman Who Rides Like a Man 2
- Alanna: "Jon? Why d'you want to be the Voice? You're already restless."
- Jon: "I need to be the Voice. If I can do this thing, become the leader of the Bazhir, there should be few secrets of the human soul I won't understand. [...] If I know them, how they think, I'll know how most people think. With that knowledge I can become the greatest--the best--ruler who ever lived."
- Alanna: "It's so important to you?"
- Jon: "It's what I was born to do. It's what I will do. In spite of being restless. In spite of everything."
- — Alanna and Jon the night before he became the Voice[src]
[edit] The Woman Who Rides Like a Man 3
- "I think I'm leavin' ye in a fairly quiet place. Ye weren't well enough known here that ye could get into any trouble, and I thought they'd stay away from ye. But I come back, and ye're the Motherblessed shaman of the tribe, ye've adopted three young ones, and ye're forcin' the women to accept two of their own sittin' with the men--"
- —Coram Smythesson to Alanna of Trebond regarding her changes to the Bloody Hawk tribe[src]
[edit] First Test 1
- "I suppose I'm being rash and peculiar, again, but if it means helping my friend Joren improve his studies, well, I'll just have to sacrifice myself. There's nothing I won't do to further the cause of book learning among my peers."
- —Nealan of Queenscove at Keladry of Mindelan's first day at the palace, when he volunteers to sponsor her[src]
[edit] First Test 2
- Cleon: "Now, wait. You can't go setting tradition on its ear. Hazing is the way new boys become pages. They have to earn respect from the older ones, and we teach them to obey orders."
- Kel: "So I should let this go on because it's always been that way?" Cleon, the prince, Faleron, all nodded. "No. I know what you mean, Cleon. I do your chores. But this custom leads to worse things. Cleon sends me for papers, but someone else traps a first-year in a corner and keeps making him do stupid tasks. He'll maybe hit the first-year to smarten him when the first-year slows down--and that is dead wrong. If we take this as pages, what about when we're knights? Do we say, Oh, now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages? I don't mean to lecture. You can laugh and say I'm a silly girl--but when I see anyone big pick on someone small, well, there's going to be a fight."
- — Kel defending her attitude towards hazing[src]
[edit] First Test 3
[edit] First Test 4
- Wyldon: "Well, girl? I suppose you would like a nice warm place to sit, like the others?"
- Kel: "What I like doesn't matter, Lord Wyldon. It's what you want. [...] I didn't mean it the way it came out."
- Wyldon: "How did you mean it?"
- Kel: "You're the warrior in charge. In battle you could hit me or put me in irons if I questioned you. Why should you let me do it now? Enemies could be out to jump us right here, and you wouldn't hear them because you'd be talking to me."
- — Lord Wyldon and Kel on the way to the summer training camp in Kel's first year[src]
[edit] First Test 5
- Neal: "I keep telling you, these tests have to be easy enough that even a noble with ogre blood could pass."
- Kel: "You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
- Neal: "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."
- — Nealan of Queenscove and Keladry of Mindelan on the topic of the page examinations[src]
[edit] Page 1
- Kel: "He says he's changed."
- Neal: "I suppose he could have changed. I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil."
- Kel: "You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up."
- Neal: "We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring."
- — Keladry of Mindelan and Nealan of Queenscove on Midwinter of 454 HE[src]
[edit] Terrier 1
- "Rebakah Cooper. Your six-times-great-grandmother. Famed in her day for her service as a Provost's Guard. She was fierce and law-abiding and loyal, my son. [...] And she was doom on lawbreakers, particularly thieves. Steal, and you shame her."
- —Eleni Cooper to her six-year old son George[src]
[edit] Terrier 2
- Goodwin: "Now I know why you like having a Puppy so much. It makes you all eager again. Like you were getting bored."
- Tunstall: "She was bored, too. Though I confess, I didn't think Puppies brought such big crimes so quick. Mayhap it's just you see with fresh eyes when you have a Puppy to care for. You see bad business that's been there all along."
- — Clara Goodwin and Matthias Tunstall some weeks after Rebakah Cooper became their Puppy[src]
[edit] Terrier 3
- "All right. I was against having a Puppy. I thought she'd be a lot of work and a lot of trouble. But I have to say, you were right. Let's have a toddle over to Crookshank's house, on advice from the sharpest Puppy in the whole litter."
- —Goodwin to Tunstall and Beka[src]
[edit] Bloodhound 1
- "You can't trust kings and nobles. Only them that know how real folk live."
- —Rosto the Piper to Rebakah Cooper[src]
[edit] Bloodhound 2
- Tom: "I've no pity for them getting their heads knocked in, none at all!"
- Beka: "But it was murder, Master Tomlan."
- Tom: "Some folk need murdering."
- Clary: "Tom, that's enough. Cooper's a good servant of the law."
- — Tomlan Goodwin, Rebakah Cooper and Clara Goodwin referring to Geraint and Madon Pell's death[src]
[edit] Bloodhound 3
- Beka: "I'm not that fond of lying to folk. Not telling someone I like why I'm really here is the same as lying."
- Goodwin: "We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes. [...] Folk will die of hunger if we don't nab these colemongers."
- — Rebakah Cooper and Clara Goodwin[src]
[edit] Nominations
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[edit] Bloodhound 4
- Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
- Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
- — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck"[src]
- Support --Purzel 14:57, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Squire 1
- Lerant: "If I pretent I like you, squire, can I use the spyglass?"
- Kel: "Please don't try. You're not that good an actor. Dom, he can look when you're done."
- Lerant: "Some people are cocky ever since they killed a whole centaur."
- Dom: "Some people are annoying."
- — Lerant of Eldorne, Keladry of Mindelan and Domitan of Masbolle shortly before Third Company joins the Royal Progress[src]
- Support: Lerant can actually be funny. --Purzel 14:57, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Squire 2
- Neal: "Meet anyone worth having a conversation with?"
- Kel: "You mean relatives of yours?" Kel asked, all innocence. "You know, Neal, I think your branch was cheated when they handed out brains, because Dom--" She ducked the roll Neal threw at her."
- — Nealan of Queenscove and Keladry of Mindelan in the squire's messhall some time after Kel had been made Sir Raoul's squire[src]
- Support --Purzel 14:57, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Daja's Book 2
- Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
- Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
- Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people."
- — Sandrilene fa Toren and her teacher Dedicate Lark refering to the drought in Gold Ridge[src]
- Support: I like this quote because it shows that not even magic can fix all problems. --Purzel 17:49, October 20, 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Daja's Book 3
- Daja: "I don't want to go there. It's cold. It won't like me."
- Briar: "It's just ice."
- Daja: "And ice and smiths are supposed to mix? I'll freeze and go all brittle and break."
- — Daja Kisubo and Briar Moss when they first discovered the Dalburz Glacier with their magical selfes.[src]
- Support: --Purzel 16:09, November 4, 2009 (UTC)
