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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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Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Lives
Wood
Breaks
Glass
Glasses
Survive
Woods
Caught
Bends
Break
Sings

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Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
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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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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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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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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
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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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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
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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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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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Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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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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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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Magic, like technology, is a tool.
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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
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It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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