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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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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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Novelist
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Queens
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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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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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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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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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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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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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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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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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If you have to hit--hit low.
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I will tell the stork-man.
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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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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
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Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
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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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