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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.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
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I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', she told me. Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.
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It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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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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Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
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Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.
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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.
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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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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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I will tell the stork-man.
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