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Tortall and the Queens Riders!

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Queens

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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Oh, Daja, moaned Jory, you sound just like my parents. She ran from the schoolroom. Well, there's no reason to insult me, muttered Daja, half offended.
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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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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I'm sorry, she said humbly. I haven't wanted to lie to you. I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met. He thought about it for a moment, then added, - or the best. Now I'm all confused.
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I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
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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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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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I will tell the stork-man.
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