110+ Tamora Pierce Quotes On Death, Fantasy And Adventure

Tamora Pierce is an American writer of fantasy fiction. She is best known for her books about the magical land of Tortall, which she has been writing since 1983. Her most popular series is The Song of the Lioness, which follows the adventures of Alanna of Trebond, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to become a knight. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Tamora Pierce on love, life, death.

Top 10 Tamora Pierce Quotes

1. Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
2. You look as scary as a buttered muffin.
3. Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
4. Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
5. Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
6. I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
10. I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

Tamora Pierce Short Quotes

• When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
• My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!
• A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
• If you have to hit--hit low.
• I believe in deeds, not words.
• We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.
• Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
• A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.
• Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
• If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

Tamora Pierce Quotes About Love

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather. — Tamora Pierce

I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future. — Tamora Pierce

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? — Tamora Pierce

"I love you, Jonathan," she whispered. A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against his side. "I know," he said. "I just wanted to be sure you knew it, too." — Tamora Pierce

Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it" George Cooper — Tamora Pierce

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 — Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce Quotes About Life

As long as there's life, there's hope. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard. — Tamora Pierce

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

Tamora Pierce Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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. — Tamora Pierce

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop] — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

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

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. — Tamora Pierce

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time. — Tamora Pierce

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE. If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy, Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em I Will NEVER Let Them Go. — Tamora Pierce

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me. — Tamora Pierce

After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals. — Tamora Pierce

Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused. — Tamora Pierce

I will tell the stork-man. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats. — Tamora Pierce

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. — Tamora Pierce

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

Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke. — Tamora Pierce

If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either. — Tamora Pierce

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.) — Tamora Pierce

Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places. — Tamora Pierce

I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed her friend. "You do look yellow around the edges," she told him, her face quite serious. "I hadn’t wanted to bring it up." "We daffodils like to have things brought up," Neal said, slinging an arm around her shoulders. "It reminds us of spring. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

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

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy. — Tamora Pierce

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job. — Tamora Pierce

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. — Tamora Pierce

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

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes. — Tamora Pierce

I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages. — Tamora Pierce

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult? — Tamora Pierce

Tortall and the Queens Riders! — Tamora Pierce

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

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

Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do. — Tamora Pierce

rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge — Tamora Pierce

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding. — Tamora Pierce

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance. — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to? — Tamora Pierce

My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied. — Tamora Pierce

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. — Tamora Pierce

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz — Tamora Pierce

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

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

They had almost reached their horses when Neal's unmistakable drawl sounded through the stable: "Joren is so pretty. Say, Garvey, are you two friends because you can have him? — Tamora Pierce

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

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

We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating. — Tamora Pierce

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

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world. — Tamora Pierce

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not. — Tamora Pierce

Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care. — Tamora Pierce

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. — Tamora Pierce

Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do. — Tamora Pierce

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again. — Tamora Pierce

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 — Tamora Pierce

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove — Tamora Pierce

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle — Tamora Pierce

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief. — Tamora Pierce

Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad. — Tamora Pierce

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no. — Tamora Pierce

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you. — Tamora Pierce

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

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

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right. — Tamora Pierce

"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused. — Tamora Pierce

I am not wise, but I can always learn. — Tamora Pierce

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp — Tamora Pierce

These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins? — Tamora Pierce

Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently? — Tamora Pierce

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am. — Tamora Pierce

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. — Tamora Pierce

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson. — Tamora Pierce

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

If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr. — Tamora Pierce

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? — Tamora Pierce

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question! — Tamora Pierce

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. — Tamora Pierce

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me. — Tamora Pierce

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

"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

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. — Tamora Pierce

Life Lessons by Tamora Pierce

1. Tamora Pierce's work emphasizes the importance of strong female characters who are determined, brave, and independent.
2. Her stories also show that friendship and loyalty are essential to overcoming obstacles and achieving success.
3. Finally, her writing demonstrates that it is possible to overcome adversity and be true to oneself despite the odds.