Favorite Quotes

[katreus]

I still like Tamora Pierce's books years after I read them and the Protector of the Small series is one of my favorites.
From First Test

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"What do they think their mothers do, when the lords are at war and a raiding party strikes? Stay in their solars and tat lace?"
That made Kel smile. "My aunt lit barrels of lard and had them catapulted onto Scanran ships this summer."
"As would any delicately reared noblewoman."

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"I am impressed, young lady," he told her with a wry smile. "You have been royally pounded."
Kel smiled at him. "You should see the other fellows."
"There!" cried Neal, holding up his hands. "You see what I have to deal with!"
"You may have noticed my son has an endless capacity for drama," Baird told Kel.
She couldn't help it: she grinned.

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Thirteen sparrows, the entire courtyard flock, stood on the coverlet. Crown hopped up the distance from Kel's navel to somewhere below her chin, where Kel lost sight of her. She closed her eyes, waiting for the gentle peep. Instead the quick gait that circled her cheek stopped beside her ear. "PEEP!"

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"But this custom leads to worse things. Cleon sends me for papers, but someone else traps a first-year in a corner and keeps making him do stupid tasks. He'll maybe hit the first-year to smarten him when the first-year slows down and that is dead wrong. If we take this as pages, what about when we are knights? Do we say, Oh, now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?"

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From Page:

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That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

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"I'd like to be perfect," Kel said plaintively as they followed their friends. "It would be nice."
"And so daunting for the rest of us, trust me," Neal assured her.

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"Where did you learn all that?" Owen breathed, his eyes wide.
"Some I learned at the Yamani court," Kel replied calmly, gulping down a cup of water. "Some Eda Bell taught me this summer."
"I'm going to treat you with the reverence I reserve for the Crown Jewels," Roald assured her, his eyes crinkled with mirth.

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And from Green Glow over at TTH, Anya... not:

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Deciding to be helpful, Anya added, We can both speak Norse and do the dance of Capitalist Superiority and do magic.

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