“There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
-George to Alanna”

— Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

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American writer of fantasy novels for children 1954

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