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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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Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.
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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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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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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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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
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I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', she told me. Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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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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I believe in deeds, not words.
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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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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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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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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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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