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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Neal
Treachery
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Youth

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Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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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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She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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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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I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
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I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.
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Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told 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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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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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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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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Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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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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If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him. So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
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