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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Dove
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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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If you have to hit--hit low.
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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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I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
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Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the
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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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