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c32b5bc
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You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs.
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nealan
owen
protector-of-the-small
page
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Tamora Pierce |
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She wanted an extra advantage today, more than she'd had in training with Raoul or knights like Jerel. When the trumpet blared, she told Peachblossom, "Charge." Muscles bunched under her. The gelding flew at his top speed down the dirt lane, hooves thundering in packed dust. For those brief seconds Kel felt like an army of one. She loved no one so much as her horse."
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kel
kelandry
peachblossom
squire
tilting
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Tamora Pierce |
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be31fe2
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Lokeij whistled. "Make the king's warriors vanish if they come. . . what a deceitful turtledove you are." Aly smiled at the sky. "Oh, don't,"she replied in the tones of a flirtatious court lady. "Stop, I insist. Your flattery makes me blush."
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funny
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Tamora Pierce |
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2c0e3e7
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Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.
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b5d6f0d
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Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's shell.
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bloodhound
transvestite
okha
trickster
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Tamora Pierce |
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785ebdc
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Adults and pups alike, they surrounded her in the greeting ceremony, licking her face and wagging their tails. Brokefang let the girl hug him fiercely about the neck and nuzzled her in reply.
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wolf-speaker
tamora-pierce
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Tamora Pierce |
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7220560
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Does she ever get sick from eating human food?" Kaddar watched as the dragon managed to dump half the water down her throat and half all over herself. Daine smiled. "She never gets sick from anything, Once she ate a box of myrrh. She was only three months old. I thought every little accident she had would harm her for life." "She didn't get sick?" "She burped smoke for a week, that's all."
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kittne
kaddar
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Tamora Pierce |
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2adbdc0
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Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.
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Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that!" "Flatten your fur, Weiryn," replied the badger. "What makes you think I had a choice?" "The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so?" "I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag."
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graveyard-hag
weiryn
daine
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Tamora Pierce |
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dfb2ecf
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I knew it!" he cried, jubilant. "I thought 'twas you, but there's more of you now. You should've seen the likes of her, boys," he said, turning towards the other convicts as he pointed at Kel. "We was all outlaws, livin' on the edges, and this bunch of pages stumbled into our camp. We chased 'em back in a canyon, and her -" he jabbed his finger at Kel - "she gutted ol' Breakbone Dell, and him the meanest dog-skinner you'd ever hope to meet...
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kickass-heroine
respect
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Tamora Pierce |
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It's the only bad thing about animals," she told Cleon. "Most don't live as long as we do." "I know, sweet," Cleon said, kissing first one of her eyelids, then the other. "But think how bleak life would be without them."
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Tamora Pierce |
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079bff3
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The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
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Tamora Pierce |
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Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)
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When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!" Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, you've had time to think. What's your answer?" "That I need more time to think!"
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time
jon
proposals
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Tamora Pierce (Author) |
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9a686f2
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Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.
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Tamora Pierce |
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67254c4
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She got to her feet and tucked her fingers into her armpits to warm them, glaring at Briar and Parahan as she walked over to the mules. It wasn't fair that men didn't have to twist themselves into knots to pee!
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pee
gender-differences
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Tamora Pierce |
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7e02878
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I wish he wouldn't do this when he's on me. It's really very upsetting.
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Tamora Pierce |
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aa81b17
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So were you always mad, or did it come on you when you was took?" Aly smiled. "I'm told it runs in the family." --
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Tamora Pierce |
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She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place."
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Tamora Pierce |
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I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
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Tamora Pierce |
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Knowing to whom she owed the new warmth, Alanna tried to thank Mari Fahrar. The old woman brushed her words aside. "All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too." Alanna had to laugh. Until Mari and Farda entered her life, she never realized that the tribeswomen viewed their men not with fear but with loving disrespect. Sometimes she felt that she was the one getting the education, not her..
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Tamora Pierce |
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a224184
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The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.
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Tamora Pierce |
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ecbf812
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My dear, why send Aly to wait on us?" he wanted to know. "I know you were busy with your domestic arrangements, but surely one of the girls with experience waiting on the nobility would have served."He smiled kindly at Aly. "Though you did a creditable job." "Aly isn't used to Bronau as we are, my dear," Winnamine explained. "She might see what would be hidden to us. And she has certain useful skills." "Useful?"Mequen asked, raising his bro..
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mequen
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Tamora Pierce |
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3c800f2
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Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer.
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Tamora Pierce |
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The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - learn to love. You have been given a hard road to walk. Love will ease it. Much depends on you, Alanna of Trebond. Do not fail me!" - The Goddess"
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Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!"
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I don't know about some of these other people, particularly the ministers who served my uncle." "Can't you get rid of them?" Kaddar shook his head. "The country's already in turmoil. I need to keep a few of the same faces around, at least until I get their measure." "It doesn't sound like much fun. I wish you luck with it." "I'll need luck," Kaddar took her hand. "Daine, I found my uncle's papers. He was going to have me arrested an..
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humor
kaddar
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Tamora Pierce |
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5b8d1ec
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The wolf who sings alone is not happy.
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Tamora Pierce |
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The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.
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okha
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Tamora Pierce |
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cc977e4
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Locks are for the unimaginative.
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Tamora Pierce |
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Onua smiled. She knew an old grievance when she heard one. "Then why wear 'em? Get yourself breeches and a shirt like me." Daine gaped at her. "Men's gear? With folk talking about me all the time as is?" Onua shook her head. "You're not home now. The rules have changed." Daine opened her mouth to object--then closed it. She looked at her skirts. To be rid of them, and the petticoats . . . it hit her, really hit her, that she was free of Sno..
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Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies."
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When we return--when I have delivered our discovery--I will give you a book to read about a thing called wild magic," she said drily. "I wouldn't talk about it in the university. It's supposed to be an old wives' tale. Well, I am an old wife. You might be interested, that's all."
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daine
master-sebo
numair
wild-magic
book
foreshadowing
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Tamora Pierce |
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fe62050
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Daine put a hand on her bow. It was loaded, but she didn't want to kill Maura's sister. "I wouldn't call names, if I was you " she retorted. Yolane backed up. "Tirell! Oram! Jemis! To me! Oram, on the double!" Daine shook her head. "Yell all you like, they won't come. They're gone. " "What do you mean, 'gone'?" "I mean it's at an end the king knows what you're up to. The rebellion's uncovered. You'll never be queen. "
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ec2e5bb
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The hardest lesson any of us must learn is there's only so much we can do," she informed him, her voice lemon-tart. "We run into it headfirst all the time, knowing what we can do, what we can't, how much we can do. We think of magic as this promise that we will fix anything that comes our way, Keth. We can't."
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When I told you don't touch me to wake me, ever, because I've been in a war and I react violently, you respected me." For a plant person, Rosethorn could sound like iron when she made a point with someone stupid. "Evvy was in that same war. She fought as hard as any adult--harder, sometimes. Yet you refuse to acknowledge that she may suffer the same effects."
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670c876
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At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been stripped from the afternoon.
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Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat" --
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keladry-of-mindelan
shang
warriors
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Tamora Pierce |
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fdf75cc
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Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.
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magic
master-sebo
numair
teaching
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Tamora Pierce |
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2a88546
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Ozorne, please don't let him try to make me into a battle mage. I wish you'd told me that's what you wanted." Arram stopped and grabbed his friend by the arms. "I won't do it. I'm not a killer. I'll never be a killer."
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killing
murder
battle-mage
ozorne
numair
killer
morals
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Tamora Pierce |
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86c75c5
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Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said!" "I heard a fart," Kel said grimly. You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel"
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Tamora Pierce |
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He had learned a great deal while he was there, it was true. In particular, he had found that he wasn't certain he could stay in a country where slavery was practiced. He had always thought he would manage to avoid it somehow when he left the university, or that he would become used to it. Now he understood he could not avoid it. The university managed to live slave-free, but it was a lie. The shadow of slavery lay over it. The arena was on..
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slavery
carthak
numair
slaves
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Tamora Pierce |
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3e035ab
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All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.
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Tamora Pierce |
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714439e
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New learning never hurt anybody.
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learning
new
teach
learn
teaching
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Tamora Pierce |