Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierceis an American writer of fantasy fiction for teenagers, known best for stories featuring young heroines. She made a name for herself with her first book series, The Song of the Lioness, which followed the main character Alanna through the trials and triumphs of training as a knight. Many of her books have feminist themes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
pie wish ifs
And if wishes were pies, I`d weigh more than I do. Sir Myles of Barony Olau
doe money-talks bark
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
shoes arrogance barefoot
If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
confused years people
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.
class two people
I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
glasses magic vision
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.
fear sleep dark
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends.
dream sweat secret
Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn." Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.
girl jobs trouble
You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.
looks briars dies
Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.
fighting sickness sometimes
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
life someday scholar
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
advice should distrust
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
cat eye dark
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.