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Most of us were raised to think love is fire, passion, and prolonged bouts of giddiness and strained emotions. The quieter kind of love looks kinda boring on the surface, even cool-hearted. Nobody wants that at first. Some people never learn how wonderful it is to be friends with a lover or spouse, to know that here is someone you can be yourself around, and they will love you anyway, sometimes not in spite of your worse characteristics, but because of them. That kind of lover will stay with you through thick and thin, will make you feel valued always, and will make any disastrous occasion seem less so because you are with that person.

Tamora Pierce (source)

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I’m just rediscovering these books and this woman after about two and a half years of developing emotionally and personally (and falling in love). Turns out, hers are the books I want my future children (especially daughters) to read not just because they’re exciting and well-written, but because the characters make good value judgments and are good role models not just for how to behave, but how to treat others.

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Finish this sentance: Tamora Pierce taught me…

fytortall:

mercutie-oh:

Tamora Pierce taught me that even children can be teachers - and in turn, I began teaching music and dance to others when i was 15. Thank you Tamora!

That strength comes from within. The importance of friendship. That you can choose your own family.

That even if your dreams seem impossible, with enough effort and determination you can be or do whatever you want.  That it doesn’t matter what other people think you should be but what you think you can be. 

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We don’t want her with us,” Liesa protested when they reached the noble’s table.
Sandry looked down with her button nose at the other girl. “She is my guest,” she said flatly. “She- what’s your name?” she asked in Tradertalk.
Daja nearly refused. When she saw anger on the faces of the other girls, she grinned instead, white teeth flashing aginst dark skin. “Daja Kisubo.”
“Lady Daja is my guest,” Sandry told Liesa.
A girl nearby muttered, “If that’s a lady, I’m a cat.”
Reaching out, Sandry lifted the pitcher of milk from the table. Cradling it in both hands, she walked over to the mutterer. “I am Sandrilene fa Toren, daughter of count Mattin fer Toren and his countess, Amiliane fa Landreg. I am the great-niece of his grace, Duke Vedris of this realm of Emelan, and cousin of her Imperial Highness, Empress Berenene of the Namorn Empire. You are Esmelle ei Pragin, daughter of Baron Witten en Pragin and his lady Colledia of House Wheelwright- a merchant house. If I tell you my friend is a lady, then you-” carefully she poured milk into Esmelle’s plate- “You had best start lapping, kitty.
Circle of Magic- Sandry’s Book, by Tamora Pierce (via nottestella)
I chose to be a writer in girlhood because books rescued me. They were the places where I could bring the broken bits and pieces of myself and put them together again, the places where I could dream about alternative realities, possible futures. They let me know firsthand that if the mind was to be the site of resistance, only the imagination could make it so. To imagine, then, was a way to begin the process of transforming reality. All that we cannot imagine will never come into being.
bell hooks, “Narratives of Struggle” (via ellesugars)

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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.
Jim Jarmusch (via colinfirth)

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elle-alone-on-an-island:

I re-read Tamora Pierce’s Trickster series approximately every two or three months, at least. As attached as I am to Daine, and Kel, the Trickster series is by and large my favorite of Tamora Pierce’s works. There is something infinitely appealing in crows and Kyprioth and political revolution. I somehow never grow tired of these stories in these very well-worn pages.

*cannot word love feelings for these books*

This is a scarily accurate description of what I do and feel…

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