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Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it--teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy," Dominik"
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Mercedes Lackey |
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You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It's that discovery that makes a marriage work.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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He'd parted reluctantly from Amily, thinking again with envy of Lena and Bear. One thing that they hadn't been forced to deal with during their courtship was other people . . . "keeping an eye on them." He and Amily must have a hundred "eyes" on them at all times. Amily, after all, was the daughter of the King's Own. Practically every Companion on the Hill was "keeping an eye on her." Literally nothing they did was really private, and if he..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Only a very careless father would be inclined to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I suppose I'm about to act like the disreputable uncle who everyone fears to leave the boys with because he encourages them to drink distilled spirits, stay up late, and do more than merely kiss girls." "Uh... what?" Mags replied, utterly bewildered now. "I am going," Jakyr said, leaning toward Mags, his eyes dancing with laughter, "to tell you how to ple..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He
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Mercedes Lackey |
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The night-sylphs, all of them, were armed with what looked like swords of glass. The pixies and the tiny ones were armed too, if not with knives and miniature swords , then with their own long claws. The pixies were creatures the size of dolls, but with strange attenuated bodies and long limbs, mostly clothed in colourful rags, and with dragonfly wings. Their joints were knobby, and their faces more animalistic. The smaller ones were also w..
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value.
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Mercedes Lackey |
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By such little victories are wars and hearts won,
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Mercedes Lackey |
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and payment exacted for the crimes and weaknesses of a lifetime. Her hands shook, and tears prickled at the back of her eyes, but she couldn't even cry. Something horrible was going to happen to her, and she knew she deserved it, but she couldn't help shrieking inside that it wasn't fair, that she hadn't known what would happen back when she could still change things, back while it would have done any good. And now, nothing she could do cou..
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I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,
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Mercedes Lackey |
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Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.
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Mercedes Lackey |