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I am not wise, but I can always learn.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
Novelist
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Wise
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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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Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.
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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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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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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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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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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.
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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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I will tell the stork-man.
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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.
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Tris: I was reading. Sandry: You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt. Tris: Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
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Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the
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