Tamora Pierce Quotes - Page 2

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.

No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

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

Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die