Mercedes Lackey Quotes

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to ge...

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one ...

Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precise...

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you...

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stor...

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,...

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...

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

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enem...

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not mat...

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the...

Only a very careless father would be inclined to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I suppose I'm ...

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

I think I know why you never married, Sarah.""Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come...

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased...

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tie...

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of h...

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been th...

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ...

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the ...

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

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it ca...

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to...

Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get K...

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I...

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she wou...

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic p...

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine ...

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing ...

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "dan...

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sage...

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

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to b...

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice...

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our ...

Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare ...

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad...

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

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

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can....

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...

There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It wil...

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless...

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s ...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...