Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Tamora Pierce

Categorized in : Thinking Might Being Different

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.

horse kings men

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

excited make-you-think thinking

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

cousin uncles brother

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. by Tamora Pierce

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

folks

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)

brave winter night

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squi... by Tamora Pierce

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)

girl dancing boys

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me. by Tamora Pierce

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

ifs knows

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?

being-nice pages nice

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mo... by Tamora Pierce

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

asking-questions tired mother

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

splits eye noses

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

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

fear attention mean

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh,... by Tamora Pierce

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

knights jobs people

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel by Tamora Pierce

You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel

boys

I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.

sunrise dragons thinking

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had... by Tamora Pierce

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

died care men

Why does he speak of them that way?" The crow-man wanted to know. "They are humans, just like he is." "I don't think he sees them as just like him." Ally explained. "He is foolish then," said Nawat. "There are more raka than Bronaus.

crow men thinking

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.

please trying jobs

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

ignored long world

Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

flirting falling-in-love nice

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

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