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If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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I will tell the stork-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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Daja: He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other. Lark: I didn't say they liked it. - Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases
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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.
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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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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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When in doubt, shoot the wizard.
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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
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Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?
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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
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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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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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