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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.
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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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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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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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
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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 it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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. . . 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 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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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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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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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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