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I will tell the stork-man.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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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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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.
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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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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know! And I'd say, I know, girl, buy you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
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