Scary with you is better than scary without you Tamora Pierce More Quotes by Tamora Pierce More Quotes From Tamora Pierce Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way. Tamora Pierce confused people years A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure Tamora Pierce good-friend laughing fall She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men. Tamora Pierce stupid-men stupid men He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat. Tamora Pierce trials forever believe You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "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. Tamora Pierce shallow-person smart stupid A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. Tamora Pierce fighting fun thinking I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man. Tamora Pierce growing-up want men Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult? Tamora Pierce insult girl boys 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. Tamora Pierce mind believe world Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place. Tamora Pierce buzzards hurt firsts 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 Tamora Pierce discipline years ideas 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 after the pirate attack Tamora Pierce exactly-is kids thinking "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 warning mother silly 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. Tamora Pierce punishment mouths trying Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry Tamora Pierce inquiry mazes talking It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it! Tamora Pierce defense winning night Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift Tamora Pierce issues moral answers Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me. Tamora Pierce excuse-me excuse said George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you? Tamora Pierce want long thinking Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!" And I'd say, "I know, girl, buy you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you. Tamora Pierce care girl water