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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Intrigues
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Evil working in subtler fashion marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.
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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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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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. . . 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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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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 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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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.
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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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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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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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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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