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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine
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She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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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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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.
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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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What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
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I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
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Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
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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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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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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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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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Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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