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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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Priorities
Rock
Rocks
Strange
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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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 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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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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Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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