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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

Tamora Pierce

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Girls
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Briar: So I guess I was the last to know. Rosethorn: Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
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I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
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it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove
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It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
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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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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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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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As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
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Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
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I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.
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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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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
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Not too fast, called Raoul. Let's not scare anyone. His majesty said with all deliberate speed! chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. That's how we're doing it, Raoul told him. Deliberately.
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Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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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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