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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!"
And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.


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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