Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
Tamora PierceDale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!" Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say." — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck
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