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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Wasted
Doomed
Message
Messages
Flower
Journey
Three
Blighted
Ends
Bloomed

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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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Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.
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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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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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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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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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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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