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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.
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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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. . . 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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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