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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

Mercedes Lackey

Book, Writing, Events

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Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

Mercedes Lackey

Fashion, Betrayal, Heart

Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.146, Penguin

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I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

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Dog, Cat, Thinking

Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Phoenix and Ashes: Elemental Masters #3”, p.132, Penguin

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The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

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Sky, Doe, Shells

Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.52, Penguin

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Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

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Dream, Dog, Secret

Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.121, Penguin

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Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

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Hug, Ifs, Hug You

Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Ball (2003). “Brain Ships”, p.48, Baen Books

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I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

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Can Do

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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.

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Wise, Mother, Childhood

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Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

Mercedes Lackey

Names, Long, Giving

Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.56, Penguin

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There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

Mercedes Lackey

Getting Back Up, Bad Times, Intrigue

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The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

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Men, Boys, Interesting

Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

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Passion, People, Trouble

Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Four and Twenty Blackbirds”, p.238, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

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Lasts, Mud, Yeah

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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.

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Mother, Voice, Calm

Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1997). “The Silver Gryphon”, p.211, Penguin

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A quaint conceit, don't you think?

Mercedes Lackey

Thinking, Quaint, Conceit

Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.626, Penguin

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Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

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Mean, Civilization, Barbarism

Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.209, Penguin

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... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Mercedes Lackey

People, Sometimes, Terrible

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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

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Passion, One Day, Driven

Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

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Mean, Fighting, Numbers

Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.158, Penguin

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How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

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Clever, Hero, Cad

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Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.

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Vision, Twisted, Sideways

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In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.

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Dog, Forever, Three

Mercedes Lackey (2008). “Firebird”, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

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Lying, Heart, Night

Mercedes Lackey (2015). “The Mage Winds”, p.531, Titan Books

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...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

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Dying, Way

Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.98, Macmillan

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Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones

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Two, Voice, Somewhere Under

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