Tamora Pierce - Alanna: The First Adventure (1983)

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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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Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us—to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

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Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?

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I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

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It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense—ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

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I truly love our Code of Chivalry. We are taught that noblemen must take everything and say nothing. Noblemen must stand alone. Well, we're men, and men aren't born to stand alone. -Myles of Olau

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Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

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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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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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Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

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Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

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Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.

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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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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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