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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of danger on the floor around them. Look, it's danger, don't step in it!
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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Mercedes Lackey
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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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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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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!
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
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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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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