“And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.”

— Tamora Pierce , book Mastiff

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American writer of fantasy novels for children 1954

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