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Category: Tamora Pierce

Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think ‘We don’t need to be as diligent with the razor blade,’ but they do.

People, Problem, Editing

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

family, parents

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that’s what I want them to take away.

Me, People, Want

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?” she asked.”I don’t see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful,” I replied.

blame, comeback

All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder’s pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored – why sorrow? The war victims aren’t our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.

inspirational-attitude

Alan, you seem to think we won’t like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you’re different?

different, identity

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

humor, mastiff, silence

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

answers, morality

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

feelings, jealousy, love

Scummer, pox and wound rot!” roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. “Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!

anger, cursing, profanity, rage

If I say you’re a goatherd’s son, you say, ‘Yes, Lord Ralon.'”Alanna gasped with fury. “I’d as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you’ve been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

ammusing, anger, humor, insult, pigs

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, “Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That’s not woman’s work.””It’s needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself.””I never!” gasped Sarra, indignant.”You taught me when you were murdered in your own house,” Daine said quietly.

daine, death, fighting, sad, self-defense