Tamora Pierce Quotes

'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.'

It's difficult to keep your eyes moist free and your head clear when the girl you really really liked chooses to go on a date with your best friend.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

You're not sick you're just in love.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

I fall in love very easily.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

It's not possible to stop love.

I never fall in love.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

The experience of watching other standups is either: 1) you see your mate doing standup and it's really bad and you're heartbroken, or 2) You see your mate doing really well and it's heartbreaking.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned

Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.