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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.


Mercedes Lackey

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He shook his head, obviously at a l...
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That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
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MERCEDES LACKEY If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
MERCEDES LACKEY Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happen...
MERCEDES LACKEY In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,...
MERCEDES LACKEY You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
MERCEDES LACKEY If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
MERCEDES LACKEY The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...
MERCEDES LACKEY It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good a...
MERCEDES LACKEY If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.
MERCEDES LACKEY Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...
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MERCEDES LACKEY These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them...
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MERCEDES LACKEY Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...
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MERCEDES LACKEY I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
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MERCEDES LACKEY Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
MERCEDES LACKEY Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.
MERCEDES LACKEY Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...
MERCEDES LACKEY The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the ...
MERCEDES LACKEY I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he sai...
MERCEDES LACKEY This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased...
MERCEDES LACKEY Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
MERCEDES LACKEY Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen '...
MERCEDES LACKEY A quaint conceit, don't you think?
MERCEDES LACKEY ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
MERCEDES LACKEY Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
MERCEDES LACKEY If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "dan...
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MERCEDES LACKEY Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...
MERCEDES LACKEY [...] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"

He shook his head, obviously at a l...
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