You have a great fear of the TV show Mr. Rogers. 
When the sparrows in your yard don’t listen to you, you are forever traumatized 
You get into a major fight at school and when you go to see the principle your excuse is: I fell down
Your little brother can't find his lego swords...
You talk to animals, and can't understand why they won't talk back. You decide they're just being rude.
You mutter curses under your breath at your stupid brother for stealing all your Gift again.
You sometimes yell things like, "Thank the gods," "Praise Mithros," or "The Mother..."
You think that machines are run by dead children's spirits and you get grounded when your mom finds the TV and radio chopped in two.
You have an ugly dog named Jump.
You recite lines from the books and random... after all, you've memorized all of them.
You're reading this list. ~Sir Arwein

You ask your parents to please up your allowance by a silver noble or whine that your friend gets 3 gold crowns a month.
You buy a sand-filled stress balls and say they’re from you secret benefactor.
You drive your cat nuts by making it sit on your shoulder and drive your family nuts by talking to it constantly as if it will answer.
The library makes a fortune of late fines on you because you can’t bring yourself to return the book.
You hand a red rock from you neck and force everyone to call you Alanna
You say things like ‘odd’s bob’s’ and ‘oh, glory.’
You get up at the crack of dawn to do Shang exercises or ‘pattern dances’ with a broomstick from the garage
You carry a tiny belt knife (one of those cheap small lil butter knives) as well as a polishing cloth (the kind for glasses) and treat them reverently, saying they’re from the Raven Armoury, heirlooms passed down 5 generations. ~Aerine

You suddenly have an urge to larn karate, tae kwan do, etc.
You learn to fight with and throw daggers
You are trying to make a machine that will transport you to Tortall
The only reason you go on the computer is to go to Tortall webpages ~ Lady Kalverin

When most of your away messages have the word "Tortall" in them.
When you are afriad to draw George because you might make him look bad.
When the one thing you cannot live a day without reading a TP Book.
When you twich every time you see a word that at first glance resembles "Roger" 
When your nightmare consists of Jonathon teaching your social studies class.
When you start begging your parents for swordfighting and horseback riding lessons.
When you bring "Squire" to a haircutting salon and tell them to do your hai "exactly like that". ~Lady Rivka

Your obsessed when you answer "knight" when you're asked what you want to be when you grow up.
When you start hiding your expressions and people call you a lump.
When you start running with wolves and start talking with them.
When you expect crows to change into people and talk to you.
If you start talking of the war with Scantra during current events. 
 ~Lady Sabriel

if you spend all your money on a sword of the internint and name in lightning 
You insult people by saying they act like one of the characters you hate.(Roger)
You make up stories that you are it Tortall.
You buy a pony and name it Cloud ~ Lady Rina

You can recite paragraphs out of her books word for word
You use saying from the books ex. 'odds bobs!'
You will only get a cat with purple eyes 
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, 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 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, or Daine
You mention your favorite Tamora Pierce character, everyone in the room flees
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 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
When you and your friend will spend the whole class discussing whether Alanna should have married Jon or George
When you can rant on about how stupid Jon is for a full hour.
When you name the rat you are dissecting in bio Roger.
When you dye your hair red and get nonprescription violet contacts.
When you start to pretend your pet lizard is really a dragon and you name it Kitten
When you dream of being in Tortall every single night.
When you draw the characters from the books at every possible moment.
When you refuse to draw the cover of Squire because you don't want Kel to look bad.
(You know your obsessed with Alanna)When you get mad at the character quiz when it says you are Kel. ~ Lady Elena

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