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Dogs Heart Hurt

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

Mercedes Lackey

Can Do

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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.

Mercedes Lackey

Hug, Ifs, Hug You

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

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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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Strong, Men, Sugar

Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1995). “The Black Gryphon”, p.110, 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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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!

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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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Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

Mercedes Lackey

Hurt, Feet, Forgiving

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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.

Mercedes Lackey

Mean, Fighting, Numbers

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

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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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...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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If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

Mercedes Lackey

Laughter, Hysterical, Break

Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.189, Macmillan

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... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Mercedes Lackey

Fantasy, Horror, Written

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

Mercedes Lackey

Clever, Hero, Cad

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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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A quaint conceit, don't you think?

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Thinking, Quaint, Conceit

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

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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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If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

Mercedes Lackey

War, Thinking, Ideas

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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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You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

Mercedes Lackey

Desert, Might, Yeah

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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.

Mercedes Lackey

Vision, Twisted, Sideways

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[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

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Eye, Remember, Locked

Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.221, Macmillan

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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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