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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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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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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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In a dog's world, only three states existed: now, in a while, and forever. If someone left, he was gone forever, and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone forever.
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I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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