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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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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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I believe in deeds, not words.
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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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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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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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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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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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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
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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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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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Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
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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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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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If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.
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I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
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