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1 " Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time. "
― Tamora Pierce , Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
2 " Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth. "
3 " We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. "
4 " Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place. "
5 " Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift "
6 " 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? "
7 " I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.I said I don't want to talk about it. "
8 " I believe in deeds, not words. "
9 " George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you? "
10 " A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. "
11 " Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance. "
12 " It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it! "
13 " Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna) "
14 " Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me. "
15 " Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be. "
16 " 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. "
17 " The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time. "
18 " Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles) "
19 " Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time. "
20 " 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? "
