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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
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
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Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Time
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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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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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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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. . . 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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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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