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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
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Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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.
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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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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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