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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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