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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.
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Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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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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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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It's been interesting, Frostpine said casually. I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.
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If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
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I'm sorry, she said humbly. I haven't wanted to lie to you. I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met. He thought about it for a moment, then added, - or the best. Now I'm all confused.
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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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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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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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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.
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