Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
TAMORA PIERCE The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking...
TAMORA PIERCE Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter ...
TAMORA PIERCE We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every ...
TAMORA PIERCE I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
TAMORA PIERCE I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third p...
TAMORA PIERCE I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to...
TAMORA PIERCE Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. ...
TAMORA PIERCE Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself bes...
TAMORA PIERCE With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don'...
TAMORA PIERCE If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would ...
TAMORA PIERCE After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really...
TAMORA PIERCE What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves t...
TAMORA PIERCE I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any ...
TAMORA PIERCE What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achiev...
TAMORA PIERCE My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull...
TAMORA PIERCE One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my chara...
TAMORA PIERCE If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ...
TAMORA PIERCE I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
TAMORA PIERCE Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le...
TAMORA PIERCE Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked i...
TAMORA PIERCE Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
TAMORA PIERCE Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...
TAMORA PIERCE George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...
TAMORA PIERCE You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
TAMORA PIERCE This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...
TAMORA PIERCE It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
TAMORA PIERCE Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
TAMORA PIERCE The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a...
TAMORA PIERCE Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra...
TAMORA PIERCE A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
TAMORA PIERCE I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall...
TAMORA PIERCE Scary with you is better than scary without you
TAMORA PIERCE Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp
TAMORA PIERCE Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pi...
TAMORA PIERCE Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you...
TAMORA PIERCE There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular ...
TAMORA PIERCE Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obey...
TAMORA PIERCE You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
TAMORA PIERCE She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parah...
TAMORA PIERCE I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of pe...
TAMORA PIERCE He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja refer...
TAMORA PIERCE Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened."
"You're as...
TAMORA PIERCE She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?"
He smiled. "Sooner or later you...
TAMORA PIERCE Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
TAMORA PIERCE At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settle...
TAMORA PIERCE It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who...
TAMORA PIERCE Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Bri...
TAMORA PIERCE Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all...
TAMORA PIERCE Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren'...
TAMORA PIERCE ...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent...
TAMORA PIERCE Tris: "I was reading."
Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to yo...
TAMORA PIERCE And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shif...
TAMORA PIERCE I just want to be a warrior maiden and go on adventures. I don't want to fall in love,
TAMORA PIERCE You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!...
TAMORA PIERCE If you have to hit--hit low.
TAMORA PIERCE I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
TAMORA PIERCE I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against h...
TAMORA PIERCE Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!
TAMORA PIERCE You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If...
TAMORA PIERCE A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.
TAMORA PIERCE We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
TAMORA PIERCE Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)
TAMORA PIERCE The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away ...
TAMORA PIERCE Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change wh...
TAMORA PIERCE Stefan shook his head. Th' lad's got guts , he thought. Not much sense, but guts.
TAMORA PIERCE He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him...
TAMORA PIERCE Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
TAMORA PIERCE Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much i...
TAMORA PIERCE Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.
TAMORA PIERCE Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)
TAMORA PIERCE It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late...
TAMORA PIERCE Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l ty...
TAMORA PIERCE Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
TAMORA PIERCE Ah," Gary said dreamily. " 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What w...
TAMORA PIERCE Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?"
The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I ...
TAMORA PIERCE I said I fell down.
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' ey...
TAMORA PIERCE If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'"
Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as...
TAMORA PIERCE I believe in deeds, not words.
TAMORA PIERCE I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you."
"I should hope so. You're the wo...
TAMORA PIERCE I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."
She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm...
TAMORA PIERCE I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing....
TAMORA PIERCE Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
TAMORA PIERCE Lark: "You shouldn't yell at her."
Frostpine: "Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, bu...
TAMORA PIERCE Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he ye...
TAMORA PIERCE Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.
TAMORA PIERCE It's not just children who need heroes.
TAMORA PIERCE These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get ...
TAMORA PIERCE You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.
TAMORA PIERCE Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.'
Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off,
TAMORA PIERCE Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as a rose petals. Curse hi...
TAMORA PIERCE The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.
TAMORA PIERCE Nestor beckoned to me and I dismounted with care.I handed the reins to the boy with thanks. I do not...
TAMORA PIERCE Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummo...
TAMORA PIERCE Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Wi...
TAMORA PIERCE Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
TAMORA PIERCE Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors....
TAMORA PIERCE She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
TAMORA PIERCE Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all...
TAMORA PIERCE Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound...
TAMORA PIERCE I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythi...
TAMORA PIERCE What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me f...
TAMORA PIERCE Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheek...
TAMORA PIERCE And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in ...
TAMORA PIERCE Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him ...
TAMORA PIERCE Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am....
TAMORA PIERCE Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
TAMORA PIERCE Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
TAMORA PIERCE Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed...
TAMORA PIERCE When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
TAMORA PIERCE If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, cal...
TAMORA PIERCE I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
TAMORA PIERCE What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight mu...
TAMORA PIERCE Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy ...
TAMORA PIERCE I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flo...
TAMORA PIERCE They are sparkly,” Nawat said. “The griffins shed them. I thought if I brought you a present tha...
TAMORA PIERCE My dear, why send Aly to wait on us?” he wanted to know. “I know you were busy with your domesti...
TAMORA PIERCE Lokeij whistled. “Make the king’s warriors vanish if
they come. . . what a deceitful turtle...
TAMORA PIERCE We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined.
TAMORA PIERCE A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let com...
TAMORA PIERCE Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead.
Alanna shook her head....
TAMORA PIERCE Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!
TAMORA PIERCE We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin ...
TAMORA PIERCE A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, to...
TAMORA PIERCE Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.
TAMORA PIERCE Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
TAMORA PIERCE If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference betwe...
TAMORA PIERCE You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.
TAMORA PIERCE I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down ...
TAMORA PIERCE You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."

"And it's a shallow person who...
TAMORA PIERCE Seniors get to do all the jolly things," Owen complained as they walked to archery practice that fir...
TAMORA PIERCE I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to ...
TAMORA PIERCE Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few g...
TAMORA PIERCE Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not."
"Doesn't she? Don't...
TAMORA PIERCE Thus went my first Court Day.
I think I'm going to puke.
TAMORA PIERCE I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
TAMORA PIERCE Funfunfunfunfun!
TAMORA PIERCE He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
TAMORA PIERCE Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...
TAMORA PIERCE Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
TAMORA PIERCE Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.
TAMORA PIERCE Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
TAMORA PIERCE Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper
TAMORA PIERCE Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
TAMORA PIERCE Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
TAMORA PIERCE I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
TAMORA PIERCE A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for sayin...
TAMORA PIERCE When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing ...
TAMORA PIERCE I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
TAMORA PIERCE A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. TAMORA PIERCE Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
TAMORA PIERCE Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
TAMORA PIERCE cheek.
TAMORA PIERCE Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...
TAMORA PIERCE I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps mi...
TAMORA PIERCE I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?
TAMORA PIERCE You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.
TAMORA PIERCE Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accus...
TAMORA PIERCE Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and t...
TAMORA PIERCE I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...
TAMORA PIERCE You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she ret...
TAMORA PIERCE You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.

"...
TAMORA PIERCE I will tell the stork-man.
TAMORA PIERCE I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.

She sat back and stared at him. Sh...
TAMORA PIERCE We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!"
Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, yo...
TAMORA PIERCE (AUTHOR) Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN