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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
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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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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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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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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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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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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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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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