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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
Comics Writer
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Keep
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Writing
Ongoing
Maps
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Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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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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As long as there's life, there's hope.
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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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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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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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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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Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.
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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.
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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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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
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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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Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
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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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Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!
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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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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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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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