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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.
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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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Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
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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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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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What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
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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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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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Tortall and the Queens Riders!
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I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
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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're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)
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As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin
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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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I believe in deeds, not words.
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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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