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If you would rise, do so alone.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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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's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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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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Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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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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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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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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