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Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Finest
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Dancing
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Alanna
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She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men.
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Goodwin scowled at her cup. With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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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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George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?
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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're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
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It's been interesting, Frostpine said casually. I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.
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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 don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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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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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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Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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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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