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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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 you would rise, do so alone.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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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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