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Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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Why does this mean so much to you, Jon? The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?
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If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one? I asked, deathly curious now. Ahhhh, he complained. Pincas Huckleburr.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)
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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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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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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
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Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.
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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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Don't let him upset you, Niko told the four softly. He's old and he's frightened. You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us, Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. Thank you so much, he retorted waspishly.
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