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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
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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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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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