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Mastiff

Mastiff
Tamora Pierce

Mastiff is the third novel in Tamora Pierce's Provost's Dog trilogy, about a young Provost guard-woman in a fantasy kingdom called Tortall. The novel, as with all the Beka Cooper books, is written in first person diary form. The actual diary is said to be written in a mixture of Dog code and Beka's personal code

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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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“He has artistry," he repeated. "Because that's what it takes to blow things up. And cook his arm.”

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“I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.”

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“Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.”

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“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.”

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“A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.”

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“If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce.
'If she fell on the steps, they would never be able to put her together again', he replied.”

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“I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.”

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“Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.”

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