Tamora Pierce Quotes

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking

If he didn't want to be mauled, he shouldn't have put himself right in my path.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

Careful, luv. I might be angry with you, but that doesn't mean I don't still want you. So if you do that again, I'll shag you right here, right now, and sod anyone who wants to watch

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

Sometimes you have to show a little skin. This reminds boys of being naked, and then they think of sex.

You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?” – Caleb

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

I was angry. I was kind of looking for a fight. I didn't want to talk to you guys in the press, because initially, understandably, all they wanted to talk to me about was, you know, what does it feel like?

I'd like to think that I'd helped people all over the world to question the things they otherwise would have accepted as the truth. I'd also like to think that I'd charmed them a bit with my lovely vocal stylings and the baring of my lovely arse.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.