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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Hero
Better
Real
Slay
Make
Legend
Things
Dragons
Time
Legends

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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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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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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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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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