Death Quote by Tamora Pierce — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'”

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

“No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?”

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

“That night, the Raka conspirators had plenty of news to report, particularly Ochobu. Aly had not known that the mages of the Chain had been laboring to eliminate any mages who had worked magic on the Crown’s behalf. So far they had killed seven of the most powerful.”

“Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it.”

“the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death”

“It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice.”

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”

“In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.”