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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

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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
Stagnate
Dies
Moving
Keep
Change

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Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
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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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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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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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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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. . . 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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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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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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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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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 you would rise, do so alone.
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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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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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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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