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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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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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Rocks
Strange
Sense
Hard
Time
Priorities

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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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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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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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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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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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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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The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
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If you would rise, do so alone.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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She just dropped it and ran!!
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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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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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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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