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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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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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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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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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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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Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. “Auugghh!” he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.
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You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights! (Alanna)
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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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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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My heart bleeds buttermilk. -Daine
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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?
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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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