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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.
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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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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.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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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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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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