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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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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. No, don't answer me.
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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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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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I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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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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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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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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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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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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I am not wise, but I can always learn.
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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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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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You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
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Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
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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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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.
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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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