Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.
Tamora PierceYou get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.
Tamora PierceSweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.
Tamora PierceDaja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.
Tamora Pierce