“Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.”

—  Mercedes Lackey

Source: Beauty and the Werewolf

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American novelist and short story writer 1950

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