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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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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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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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