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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
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I think I know why you never married, Sarah. Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.
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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
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. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of danger on the floor around them. Look, it's danger, don't step in it!
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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
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Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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