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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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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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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a 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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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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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