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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
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
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Rocks
Strange
Sense
Hard
Time
Priorities

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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 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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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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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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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 only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
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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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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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