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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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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.
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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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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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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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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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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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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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Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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. . . 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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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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