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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.

Mercedes Lackey

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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
Glasses
Survive
Woods
Caught
Bends
Break
Sings
Lives
Wood
Breaks
Glass

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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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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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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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If you would rise, do so alone.
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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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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?
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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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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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