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My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Buttermilk
Bleeds
Heart

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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.
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Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
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Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
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Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.
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Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.
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What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
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I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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