Tamora Pierce Want Quotations

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

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.

A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.