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That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.


Mercedes Lackey

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Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with...
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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.
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MERCEDES LACKEY Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
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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 '...
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MERCEDES LACKEY ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
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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 [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...
MERCEDES LACKEY Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...
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