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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
Writer
Sickness
Fight
Fighting
Nothing
Enough
Sometimes

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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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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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I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
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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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Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
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Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn’t died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places.
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Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
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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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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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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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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases
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