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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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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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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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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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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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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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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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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Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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. . . 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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