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Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It
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tehukohiakhazarishtial,
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when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As"
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Talia was always intimidated by her presence, and always felt she looked hoydenish and disheveled, no matter how carefully she'd prepared herself for confrontations.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Why would you want to make them happy?" Amberdrake turned back to his little friend, and sat with a sad smile on his face. "Because they are bitter, unhappy people, and very little else makes them happy. They say what they do out of envy, for any number of reasons. It may be because I lead a more luxurious life than they, or at least they believe I do. It may be because there are many people who do call me friend, and those are all folk of ..
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Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.
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power
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Mercedes Lackey |
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How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.
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fear
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey.
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No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don't seem to believe we can take care of ourselves." "Which is ridiculous," Rosa agreed, "Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:
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You are not the only female hire-swords I have dealt with," he replied. "Many of my trade allies have them as personal retainers. It has often seemed to me that many of those I met have had to be twice as skilled as their male counterparts to receive half the credit."
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depredations
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To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join--that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways.
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Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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It was partly a matter of the simple fact that late fall was slaughtering time. Anything that could not be preserved had to be eaten. For instance, hens too old to lay eggs anymore and all the roosters but the chief of the flock were often killed at this time.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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kate_sparkes
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Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.'" Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will," if I do say so myself."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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his nose in the door and
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Many of them were not problems at all, only the perception of a problem, and simply delaying a decision would make it less of a perceived problem with every passing day.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing!
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Make your motivations secret to the enemy, fool them into false planning, use their force against them, lead them onto harsh ground, hold true to the beliefs of your followers, and show them the ways they may become like you. Lead by example.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Emperor held court from his Iron Throne, made from the personal weapons of all those monarchs the Emperors of the past had conquered and deposed, each glazed and guarded against rust. The throne itself was over six feet tall and four feet in width; a monolithic piece of furniture, it was so heavy that it had not been moved so much as a finger-length in centuries. Anyone looking at it could only be struck by its sheer mass--and must begin ca..
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I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip."
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Mercedes Lackey |
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There was something to be said for diversity, though it sometimes did complicate matters.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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This was true mountain country, now, and true wilderness. Valley meadows, leafy trees halfway up the slopes, then evergreens gradually taking over at the higher altitudes... their road wound its way up and down through tree-tunnels that only intermittently allowed them to see the sky. It would have been a lovely journey under other circumstances. The weather remained fair, and remarkably pleasant, even if the night was going to be cold. She..
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natures-beauty
wilderness
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That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
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mercenaries
mercedes-lackey
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It's not a happy ending!" she wept, as Elena stared at her, dumbfounded. "It will never be a happy ending! How can I possibly have a happy ending when I am going to have to spend the rest of my life without the creature I love?" Elena blinked at her, as did virtually everyone else in the courtyard. "You did say 'creature,' am I correct?" Elena asked cautiously. "And you do mean-" But she had already run across the courtyard and flung hersel..
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true-love
confession-of-love
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Mercedes Lackey |
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I look like I just got dragged behind a slow-moving horse through ten acres of wait-a-minute bushes.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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There were all kinds of things that people could have done and should have done that would have prevented it. And they didn't. Because the people in power liked where they were just fine, thanks, and they stayed there because of people with money. And the people with the money didn't want to lose a single cent of that money doing the right things. Power makes you stop thinking of anything but yourself.
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As she sat there, her feeling of loneliness increased. And this was strange, because she had always been solitary, and did not usually feel lonely when alone. But she watched Gina with Adam and- -and she realized that she wasn't happy being solitary anymore. But the person she was happiest with wasn't a person. It was Periapt. Being with him was like being with the perfect companion. He was clever. He was kind, at least to her- though he ha..
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princess-andromeda
periapt
falling-in-love
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her umbrella was of the same style as that of their formidable friend from Egypt, solid enough to knock a man unconscious, with a sharpened ferrule that could, at a pinch, be used to stab someone.
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As usual she was in the "library," curled up with her back against his stomach, sitting on his folded legs. It was very comforting to be there. The thing was, it was also beginning to feel a great deal like an embrace. Not that she'd had a lot of experience with embraces. Once in a while as a child she had gotten a hug from someone, though not for a long while now. But- This definitely felt like an embrace. It felt wonderful, in fact. Was t..
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embrace
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an untutored lout with a sledgehammer could kill you just as dead as an assassin with a stiletto.
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My eyes hurt," she said plaintively, as he surveyed the stacks of books they hadn't read yet. "Then by all means, we will save your eyes for a bit," Peri said, with a chuckle that rumbled inside his chest. He put his head down along his folded forelegs and looked up at her with an amused expression. "What are you thinking about?" he asked. "That I've never known anyone it was easier to be- friends with," she said, hesitating a moment over t..
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relationship
andromeda-and-periapt
attraction
companionship
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Mercedes Lackey |
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There are always people who aren't human, who think the only thing in the world that matters is themselves.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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da1806c
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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don't think I want to know.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Anyway, you're to have four sets- to match jewels, I suppose- white gold, pale gold, yellow gold and rose gold. Can't have your oculars clashing with your bracelets, I suppose. I'll send the 'prentice up with them later. I'm waiting for the frames to cool now." "If the Princess is not here, you can leave them with her handmaiden, Iris," Lady Thalia put in, and came around to take a look at the Sophont's handiwork. She blinked. "Good heavens..
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princess-andromeda
glasses
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