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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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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!
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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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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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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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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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