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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
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Charming
Dirt
Honest
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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I will tell the stork-man.
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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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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Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
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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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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.
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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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As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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These mages, Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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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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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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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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There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
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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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