You Know You're Obsessed With Tamora Pierce's Books When...

• You can recite paragraphs out of her books word for word
• You use saying from the books ex. 'odds bobs!'
• You wear purple contact lenses
• You will only get a cat with purple eyes
• When you get called out of class because you are getting picked up early from school, you walk in and quickly say, 'I fell down!'
• You try to control the weather
• You carry around a sword for years, then at the end you lock yourself in the basement and pretend to endure mass amounts of pain silently
• You cut your hair short, refer to yourself as the male form of your name, insist that you go to an all boys school, and only tell a select few that you're really a girl
• You wont even think of deeming a guy worthy of you if he isn't named George, Jon, Numair, Cleon, Liam, Nawat, or Dom
• You insist on calling your history teacher Sir Myles
• You draw a lioness on your brother's toy shield and confiscate it and his toy sword claiming you've earned them and then carry them around with you
• You have your own toy shield and sword
• You get up at dawn to practice the art of Shang Fighting
• When you're asked where you are from you resond, 'Tortall' and just smile
• You can answer and quiz about the books and pass without ever looking at a book
• You refuse to go near anyone named Roger
• When you get a fever you are convinced that you are going to die because you think you have the sweating sickness, inwardly your curse Roger
• You fear mister roger(s)
• You claim that you can talk to your cat
• You're completely convinced that Jackie Chan is a Shang Warrior
• You walk around making everybody call you Alanna, Kel, Alianne, or Daine
• You mention your favorite Tamora Pierce character, everyone in the room fleas
• You go to her book signings, drop to the floor bowing, making your head tuch the floor out of respect
• You walk into a bookstore and you need to find one of her books even though you already have it
• You go camping jst so you can have a fire to look into on the off chance that you will see something
• You pretend that you are Alanna or Kel practicing falling whenever you fall
• You re-write songs, changing the words into ones that have to do with the books
• You spend hours looking up Tamora Pierce Websites
• You create a website
• You are really enjoying reading this
• You ace your medeival unit in school due to your broad knowledge of it from the books
• Your screen name or e-mail has to do with her books
• You have to get the new book the day it comes out
• You can think of new ones off the top of your head
• You read Tortallian fan fiction
• You write it
• You have fictional conversations conserning TP's character with your friends for hours
• You hassel everyone you know to read the books
• You wish that you lived in Tortall and were best buds with your fav. character

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