"I am silly, now and then," Sandry admitted. "My mother said I was, anyway." "If you know, you can stop it." Carefully Daja placed a candle behind Trader Koma's image. "Then you've never been silly, or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning."

Tamora Pierce

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Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

rushing magic meditation

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act... by Tamora Pierce

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

novelists change way

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fi... by Tamora Pierce

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

reading fire dark

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. by Tamora Pierce

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

vocabulary lasts men

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have writt... by Tamora Pierce

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

someday scholar life

It's harder to heal than it is to kill. by Tamora Pierce

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

harder heal

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won'... by Tamora Pierce

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

animal baby promise

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more... by Tamora Pierce

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

noise men thinking

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'... by Tamora Pierce

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

distrust should advice

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

voice ocean sea

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends by Tamora Pierce

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

library

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

eye giving believe

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.

mother men thinking

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one. by Tamora Pierce

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

husband want men

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

love-you heart romantic

Scary with you is better than scary without you by Tamora Pierce

Scary with you is better than scary without you

without-you scared scary

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

doe mean thinking

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

warrior islands class

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching. by Tamora Pierce

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

hero

The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot me," he said, placing her on her feet once more. "Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir-" Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.

clothes eye feet