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

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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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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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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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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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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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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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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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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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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You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.
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I'm sorry, she said humbly. I haven't wanted to lie to you. I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met. He thought about it for a moment, then added, - or the best. Now I'm all confused.
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There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
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Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
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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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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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Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
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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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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 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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