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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

If you have to hit--hit low.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

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.

Locks are for the unimaginative.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong.

A knight must develop all his abilities, to the fullest.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.

You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.

We're just frisking like little captive lambkins.

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

Why, I'm just as true and honest as dirt. And I'm even more charming than dirt.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger.
-Numair Salmalin

And if wishes were pies, I'd weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau

All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too." Alanna

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

You've been nipping at cook's wine!!

Tortall and the Queens Riders!

Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took?"
Aly smiled. "I'm told it runs in the family.

No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

New learning never hurt anybody.

These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?

That's Lalasa, Kel's maid. She sews and knows all sorts of ways to hurt you.

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know."
Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.

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?

Ozorne, my precious, where are you?
- Rikash Moonsword

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

I love you," he whispered. "If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.

When in doubt, shoot the wizard.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

It was time to work on his trees, to brew medicines and weed the rooftop plants before he forgot who he really was in all this running around. (Briar)

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.
-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

He's got courage," Alex said.
"Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and--

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz

Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said!"
"I heard a fart," Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel

It isn't just children who need heros.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!

Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.

It's your own fault for encouraging him ... , you know. Now he thinks he's a human being.
Neal of Queens cove

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.

I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp

Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding."
Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

I believe in deeds, not words.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

As long as there's life, there's hope.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

If thanks was what I wanted," Sandry replied in the same language, "I would be sad indeed. Since I don't want it, I won't miss it.

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

It's not just children who need heroes.

But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do -