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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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Alone
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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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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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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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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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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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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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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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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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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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. . . 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 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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