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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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She just dropped it and ran!!
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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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!
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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