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Tamora Pierce Inspirational Quotes (131)

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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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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.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
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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?
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If you have to hit--hit low.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
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Oh, Daja, moaned Jory, you sound just like my parents. She ran from the schoolroom. Well, there's no reason to insult me, muttered Daja, half offended.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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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
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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
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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.
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Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.
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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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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?
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