Tamora Pierce

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”

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

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

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”

“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”

“No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?”

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

“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 g...”

“Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.”

“That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not known that the mages of the Chain had been laboring to eliminate any mages who had worked mag...”

“As long as there's life, there's hope.”

“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.”

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

“We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.”

“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...”

“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 thin...”