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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
Writer
Charming
Dirt
Honest
True
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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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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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Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
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Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
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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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If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)
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Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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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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She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
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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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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one? I asked, deathly curious now. Ahhhh, he complained. Pincas Huckleburr.
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Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
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