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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
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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Tris: I was reading. Sandry: You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Tris: Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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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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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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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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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.
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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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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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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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