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

Tamora Pierce

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

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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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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 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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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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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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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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free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
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Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
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A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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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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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
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