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It's been interesting, Frostpine said casually. I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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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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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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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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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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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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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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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?
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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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Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
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Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
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Wouldn't-- Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?
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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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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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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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Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
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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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