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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
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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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Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
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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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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin', she told me. Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.
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A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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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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Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it. Evvy and I have an understanding. She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.
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Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
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Why does this mean so much to you, Jon? The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one? I asked, deathly curious now. Ahhhh, he complained. Pincas Huckleburr.
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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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