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  1. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    I don't know about some of these other people, particularly the ministers who served my uncle." "Can't you get rid of them?" Kaddar shook his head. "The country's already in turmoil. I need to keep a few of the same faces around, at least until I get their measure." "It doesn't sound like much fun. I wish you luck with it." "I'll need luck," Kaddar took her hand. "Daine, I found my uncle's papers. He was going to have me arrested and charged with conspiring against him- which means he planned to have me killed. I owe you my life. I know this will sound trite, but I mean it: whatever you want that I can give, even to half of my kingdom, all you need do is ask." Daine gave him a skeptical look. "Your ministers wouldn't like the half-kingdom part." He grinned. "Actually, they want to arrest you for crimes against the state.
    book-quotehumorkaddar

  2. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that!""Flatten your fur, Weiryn," replied the badger. "What makes you think I had a choice?""The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so?""I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag.
    book-quotedainegraveyard-hagweiryn

  3. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    Does she ever get sick from eating human food?" Kaddar watched as the dragon managed to dump half the water down her throat and half all over herself. Daine smiled. "She never gets sick from anything, Once she ate a box of myrrh. She was only three months old. I thought every little accident she had would harm her for life." "She didn't get sick?" "She burped smoke for a week, that's all.
    book-quotekaddarkittne

  4. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    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?
    book-quotegodworship

  5. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her.""Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment?"No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?
    book-quotehumorthreatnumair

  6. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
    book-quotehappymannersrudeness

  7. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    Tortall and the Queens Riders!
    book-quotequeentortalltamora

  8. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    Scary with you is better than scary without you"
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  9. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.
    book-quotekittendragondaine

  10. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

    You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
    book-quoteownedmisogynyfighting

  11. Tamora Pierce _ Emperor Mage

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