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Mercedes Lackey

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    A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

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    Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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    Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

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    A quaint conceit, don't you think?

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    Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones

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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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    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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    Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

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    Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

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    Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

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    ... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

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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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    . . . 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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    Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

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    [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

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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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    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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    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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    How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

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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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    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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    If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

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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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    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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    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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    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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    Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

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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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    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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    It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

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    I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

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    It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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    It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

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    It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

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    Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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    Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

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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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    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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    Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

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    Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

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    ... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

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    The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

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    The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

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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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    There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

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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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    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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    ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

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    Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

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    Three things never anger or you'll not live for long; A wolf with cubs, A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.