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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

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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Three things never anger or you'll not live for long A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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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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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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Evil working in subtler fashion marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.
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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.
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