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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Fight
Fighting
Nothing
Enough
Sometimes
Sickness

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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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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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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 will tell the stork-man.
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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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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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You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him. So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
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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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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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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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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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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
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I am not wise, but I can always learn.
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Not one word, Kel warned. Tobe and I have reached an understanding. Neal's lips twitched. Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
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If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
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