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You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!"
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freedom
safety
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Mercedes Lackey |
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In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.
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safety
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Mercedes Lackey |
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We are to call hares ad become mushrooms," Jermayan explained kindly. "Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror." "Yes of course," Kellen said, with only a touch of irony."That makes perfect sense."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note--"I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week,"--and no further explanation whatsoever." Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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6ac5019
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Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals.
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Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what should universally be feared. Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls. Priests forget..
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Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!" The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being- Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one."
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stress
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good.
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I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.
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dragon
james-mallory
location-7374
mercedes-lackey
page-324
the-phoenix-transformed
time
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Like I said, I know bullies. Deflect, deflect, make them think they got their way even when they didn't, but never actually give in to them. Become innocuous, not worth tormenting or thinking about.
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Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. "Riding astride would have been easier," he said. "You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position." "Oh, I know," she replied with a grimace. "Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed." Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. "Oh, you're..
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bella
eric
five-hundred-kingdoms
humor
mercedes-lackey
sebastian
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No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.:
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
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religion
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Mercedes Lackey |
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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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Mercedes Lackey |
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Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. "You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day be-magicians." Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh. "Right," she said, starting to stand up. Mean, she could deal with; crazy was something else. "Thank you, Professor Dumbledore. I hope the train hasn't left yet, because-"
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
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woman-s-strength
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What is courage?" its chorus asked--and the song answered, "It is to give when hope is gone, when there is no chance that men may call you a hero, when you have tried and failed and rise to try again." It asked the same of friendship, answering that "the friend stands beside you when you are right and all others despise you for it."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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If the pupil was worthy to be trained, there came a time when the master must allow the pupil to train himself, to use and become all that the master had seen in him, fulfilling his true potential.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp--and hate.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Aleksia laughed at her, putting a world of scorn and withering contempt into her voice--just as Kay would probably do in a temper. In fact, everything that she was doing now was to test her to see if her own self-worth was strong enough to stand up to the worst the one she loved could deliver.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why....
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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No matter what tears were shed or what trials were faced, some things would stay the same. There would always be day and night, stars and sky, hope and rest. There would always be love, always compassion, and there would always be Skandranon. And forever, in the hearts of all the Clans, there would be Urtho--and for his memory, a moment of silence.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.
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godmother
magic
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Every time people give me presents, it just makes trouble." He thought of his Naming Day party, and the gift from his Uncle Alfrin that had actually started all this. "Especially if it's books. Someone gave me a book as a present once." "Then you'll know exactly what to do with these. Come on. Don't be shy. You'll hurt my feelings."
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character-kareta
james-mallory
knight-mage
location-7213
mercedes-lackey
page-396
the-phoenix-unchained
unicorn
wild-magic
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My kith and kin have long since vanished into time--
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Mercedes Lackey |
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They didn't have to be true to be good.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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You look like you've swallowed a live fish, and you're not certain if you're enjoying the experience.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.
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independence
memories
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Mercedes Lackey |
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c7c17ec
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Kethry had once described summoning as being "like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs."
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summoning
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Cats," he said succinctly. "You two-legs think they're so inscrutable. They are the world's worst gossips. And they are everywhere." Andie had to agree to that statement. The Palace was full of cats. Lean, hardworking cellar cats, energetic kitchen cats, pampered, aloof darlings of Cassiopeia's ladies- you couldn't walk ten feet without seeing a cat somewhere. The Queen didn't mind, because cats didn't demand attention the way dogs did, nor..
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gossips
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Mercedes Lackey |
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06f56f1
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I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.
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Mercedes Lackey |