The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
Mercedes LackeyDo 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 LackeyIt isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
Mercedes LackeyThree things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.
Mercedes LackeyThe 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.
Mercedes Lackey