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Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
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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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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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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.
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I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it. She looked back at him. I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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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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You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
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If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
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You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart. And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
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I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers. Aly propped her chin on her hand. So does manure, she observed.
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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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What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.
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She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.
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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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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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She has teeth like stars and hair like sheep fuzz
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I will tell the stork-man.
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