Top 200 Tamora Pierce Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Don’t we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”

— Tamora Pierce

202. “We’ve got to protect Jonathan and Darkness, don’t we?” She swung herself onto Moonlight’s back. “Let’s go, girl.” As one of the last fighters to the point, Alanna could clearly see that the enemy had advanced past the trees, engaging Jon’s men in the clearing around the main path. She glimpsed Jonathan’s silver and sapphire gleaming in the thick of the battle as Darkness reared to fight as well. Myles was beside the prince, with Gary and Raoul flanking them both. The enemy would have trouble.”

— Tamora Pierce

203. “At last the King’s Champion straightened with a groan, her free hand going to her lower back. “Nobody ever says that, even with healers, your body still adds up your breaks and bruises, then gives you the bill in your mid-thirties,” she said wryly.”

— Tamora Pierce

204. “Someday I must read this scholar everyone.”

— Tamora Pierce

205. “There were real advantages to having a father who didn’t care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?”

— Tamora Pierce

206. “Me,” she said at last. “You should pick me.” “But you’re a girl.” It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. “So?” she demanded. “Even Captain Sklaw says I’ll be a swordsman yet. I’m as good an archer as Alex, and he’s a boy and a squire. I’m a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever – ” “I’m glad you agree.”

— Tamora Pierce

207. “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

208. “Boys worry just as much about their looks as girls do. We only hide it better.”

— Tamora Pierce

209. “Horses are calmer people. They also don’t throw things at cats.”

— Tamora Pierce

210. “What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It’s not giving up your family.”

— Tamora Pierce

211. “Folk in the Lower City do not tell each other how to worship, or if they do, it is not for long.”

— Tamora Pierce

212. “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

213. “We are what we’re made to be.”

— Tamora Pierce

214. “What good is magic, if you can’t use it to help people?”

— Tamora Pierce

215. “The gods cannot reveal all things; otherwise, where is men’s right to choose their fates? Where is your right to choose?”

— Tamora Pierce

216. “Most disasters are fast, and big. You can see everyone else’s life got overturned when yours did. Houses are smashed, livestock’s dead. But plagues isolate people. They shut themselves inside while disease takes a life at a time, day after day. It adds up. Whole cities break under the load of what was lost. People stop trusting each other, because you don’t know who’s sick.”

— Tamora Pierce

217. “I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.”

— Tamora Pierce

218. “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

219. “It was plain that Nazaam and Gieyat were lovers. I’d like that, Arram thought as he followed Nazaam. To be comfortable with my lover, and laugh together, even when things are terrible. Like I do with Ozorne and Varice.”

— Tamora Pierce

220. “There are times in every rider’s life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse...”

— Tamora Pierce

221. “You’re brave, to admit you don’t know everything and then do something about it.”

— Tamora Pierce

222. “Myles hugged her tightly, taking care not to bump her wounded arm. “You’re a good lad, Alan of Trebond,” he whispered. “You give an old man hope.” “Nonsense,” Alanna growled, pleased and embarrassed by the unexpected praise. “You aren’t that old. And I’m not that good a lad.”

— Tamora Pierce

223. “A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I’m a master. I’d never have to think about the games again.”

— Tamora Pierce

224. “He was a god, the greatest of those who ruled two-leggers, but he was no Chaos queen. Her supply of awed terror was used up for today.”

— Tamora Pierce

225. “Her tolerance for fools had always been slight, and she was losing the little she had.”

— Tamora Pierce

226. “Maybe it takes a coward more courage – not less – to do and not do things. Perhaps cowards understand the world so much better than brave folk.”

— Tamora Pierce

227. “Magelet, one thing I have learned is that humans cling to their first knowledge of you, particularly if they have no experience of you once you’ve changed.”

— Tamora Pierce

228. “Few people are wise enough to know they might not be ready for such a venture. Too many rush to wed, only to discover they know little about what they’re getting into.”

— Tamora Pierce

229. “My wondrous book says you’re a feline, and a carnivore, and a vertebrate, and a mammal. I wish them that wrote it could smell around here right now and maybe they wouldn’t call you all those pretty names.”

— Tamora Pierce

230. “People with a good life would defend it more vigorously than people who were beaten down by their masters and their fates.”

— Tamora Pierce

231. “You do not take your place in your father’s tent, letting men make your decisions. You ride as a man, you fight as a man, and you think as a man – ” “I think as a human being,” she retorted hotly. “Men don’t think any differently from women – they just make more noise about being able to.”

— Tamora Pierce

232. “It was almost warm for the first day of New Year; she was dressed comfortably; she had a good horse and Faithful with her and Coram at her side. Roger’s death was bad, she thought, but life could be much, much worse. Perhaps I’ll live and be happy after, all.”

— Tamora Pierce

233. “I leave you mages to it. I’m going to camp and torture some trainees.”

— Tamora Pierce

234. “On the outside, the pony insisted. Not inside. Inside you’re People.”

— Tamora Pierce

235. “You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.”

— Tamora Pierce