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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.
Mercedes Lackey
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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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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 don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
Mercedes Lackey
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
Mercedes Lackey
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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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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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
Mercedes Lackey
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
Mercedes Lackey
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!
Mercedes Lackey
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
Mercedes Lackey
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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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.
Mercedes Lackey
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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
Mercedes Lackey
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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