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

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

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

“Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone.”

“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.'”

“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him.”

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

“People had always amazed him, he began. But they amazed him more since the sickness. For as long as the two of them had been together, he said, Gary’s mother had accepted him as her son’s lover, had given them her blessing. Then, at the funeral, she’d barely acknowledged him. Later, when she drove to the house to retrieve some personal things, she’d hunted through her son’s drawers with plastic bags twist-tied around her wrists.”

“Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.”

“The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but what we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.”

“Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.”

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”