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what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He -- Mercedes Lackey
Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose. -- Mercedes Lackey
It was Mags' turn to snort. But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th' same room at th' same time. -- Mercedes Lackey
Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it. -- Mercedes Lackey
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. -- Mercedes Lackey
Muddling along ... is the great secret to life ... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen - Gallen in Intrigues -- Mercedes Lackey
But whatever fate may be mine, I shall not simply say yes to whatever it sends! she vowed stubbornly. If it is not to my liking ... then it is not my fate. -- Mercedes Lackey
Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one. -- Mercedes Lackey
[ ... ] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"
He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word. -- Mercedes Lackey
There's a saying in Hardorn," she continued. "'You shouldn't attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.' I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed. -- Mercedes Lackey
Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong. -- Mercedes Lackey
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing. -- Mercedes Lackey
Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father - but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it. -- Mercedes Lackey
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 times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run. -- Mercedes Lackey
But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board -- Mercedes Lackey
Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions. -- Mercedes Lackey
Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream. -- Mercedes Lackey
Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out ... hurts worse than a lie. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing! -- Mercedes Lackey
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are. -- Mercedes Lackey
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 -- Mercedes Lackey
Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered. -- Mercedes Lackey
My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
Yeah, and if I have to choose between being eaten by the Endarkened and telling my Da I'm a Wildmage, I'm not sure which I'd pick. -- Mercedes Lackey
Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side. -- Mercedes Lackey
He held out the bottle. Clarice's hand was steady as she took it from him. It is poison, she thought distantly. It will kill her. She tried to be horrified at the thought, but she couldn't manage it. -- Mercedes Lackey
By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here! -- Mercedes Lackey
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
And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror. -- Mercedes Lackey
Everything written is at least in part fantasy.
Except maybe the national budget.
That's horror. -- Mercedes Lackey
There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. -- Mercedes Lackey
Keep breathing. Exhale all the hurt and sorrow, inhale the untainted air. -- Mercedes Lackey
Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running of to pack your bags. -- Mercedes Lackey
You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery. -- Mercedes Lackey
Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately. -- Mercedes Lackey
will integrate you into the -- Mercedes Lackey
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
Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there. -- Mercedes Lackey
Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. -- Mercedes Lackey
I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. "And that is this; which way do you want them sliced - lengthwise, or widthwise? -- Mercedes Lackey
To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join - that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways. -- Mercedes Lackey
It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think. -- Mercedes Lackey
The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it. -- Mercedes Lackey
It is only a fairy tale. They always end sadly. -- Mercedes Lackey
Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies. -- Mercedes Lackey
Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. -- Mercedes Lackey
We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward. -- Mercedes Lackey
Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be, -- Mercedes Lackey
:No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.: -- Mercedes Lackey
Kethry had once described summoning as being like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs. -- Mercedes Lackey
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die. -- Mercedes Lackey
Love is as much trust as it is devotion -- Mercedes Lackey
Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love. -- Mercedes Lackey
Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a goat. And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Vestakia the Redeemed in The Book of the Light. They're people.' [Tiercel Rolfort] -- Mercedes Lackey
Cats. You can't live with them, and the fur's too thin for a rug. -- Mercedes Lackey
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose. -- Mercedes Lackey
Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons. -- Mercedes Lackey
I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip. -- Mercedes Lackey
Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals. -- Mercedes Lackey
Still, she assured herself as she unpacked her suitcase on the bed, Marx wrote his Manifesto one word at a time, with but pen and ink. Modest tools that moved a world! So shall we. -- Mercedes Lackey
That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks. -- Mercedes Lackey
a fistful of crayons or a few pots of -- Mercedes Lackey
Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole. -- Mercedes Lackey
It was partly a matter of the simple fact that late fall was slaughtering time. Anything that could not be preserved had to be eaten. For instance, hens too old to lay eggs anymore and all the roosters but the chief of the flock were often killed at this time. -- Mercedes Lackey
These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability. -- Mercedes Lackey
A quaint conceit, don't you think? -- Mercedes Lackey
They called Matthew March "autistic" as a child. What no one had known was that he was not closed into a world of his own, he was far, far too open to the real one. -- Mercedes Lackey
:They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.: -- Mercedes Lackey
Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. -- Mercedes Lackey
Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free. -- Mercedes Lackey
How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. -- Mercedes Lackey
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it. -- Mercedes Lackey
I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it, -- Mercedes Lackey
You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished.
"Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy." Lanya glanced at the sky. -- Mercedes Lackey
Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors. -- Mercedes Lackey
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest. -- Mercedes Lackey
In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles. -- Mercedes Lackey
Unlike Champions, Godmothers don't have to keep undergoing ridiculous ordeals every time one turns around. Our idea of besting a dragon is not to chop it into bits, but to get it to sit down to tea. -- Mercedes Lackey
We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can. -- Mercedes Lackey
Talia was always intimidated by her presence, and always felt she looked hoydenish and disheveled, no matter how carefully she'd prepared herself for confrontations. -- Mercedes Lackey
When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp - and hate. -- Mercedes Lackey
It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information. -- Mercedes Lackey
We are to call hares ad become mushrooms," Jermayan explained kindly. "Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror."
"Yes of course," Kellen said, with only a touch of irony."That makes perfect sense. -- Mercedes Lackey
Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen -- Mercedes Lackey
You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She -- Mercedes Lackey
By such little victories are wars and hearts won, -- Mercedes Lackey
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar. -- Mercedes Lackey
She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go. -- Mercedes Lackey
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. -- Mercedes Lackey
So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. -- Mercedes Lackey
There will always be bad times ... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues -- Mercedes Lackey
There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench. -- Mercedes Lackey
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. -- Mercedes Lackey
So her safe little world would never be safe again ... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling. -- Mercedes Lackey
You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom. -- Mercedes Lackey
Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch. -- Mercedes Lackey
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion - it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. -- Mercedes Lackey
By Gaia's left breast, Hades, you really are a moron, -- Mercedes Lackey
You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy, -- Mercedes Lackey
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying) -- Mercedes Lackey
Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one. -- Mercedes Lackey
I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone. -- Mercedes Lackey
Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time. -- Mercedes Lackey
If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it! -- Mercedes Lackey
Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It -- Mercedes Lackey
Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good. -- Mercedes Lackey
Ain't necessarily 'bout bein' the 'right one' so much as it is bein' the one that's there an' willin'. -- Mercedes Lackey
I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure. -- Mercedes Lackey
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. -- Mercedes Lackey
I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself. -- Mercedes Lackey
Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value. -- Mercedes Lackey
when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As -- Mercedes Lackey
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had. -- Mercedes Lackey
Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving. -- Mercedes Lackey
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities. -- Mercedes Lackey
Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death. -- Mercedes Lackey
If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that. -- Mercedes Lackey
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance ... after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place -- Mercedes Lackey
And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully. -- Mercedes Lackey
You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It's that discovery that makes a marriage work. -- Mercedes Lackey
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there
~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn) -- Mercedes Lackey
If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I -- Mercedes Lackey
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? -- Mercedes Lackey
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. -- Mercedes Lackey
My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey. -- Mercedes Lackey
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. -- Mercedes Lackey
I'd been going to study Pre-Flowering History," Tiercel offered.
"Now you're living it," Kave said. -- Mercedes Lackey
They'd get that back; when children no longer lived in fear and privation, the ability to hope was one of the first things to return. From -- Mercedes Lackey
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them -- Mercedes Lackey
Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative. -- Mercedes Lackey
For a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe
or hope
for anything. -- Mercedes Lackey
She just dropped it and ran!! -- Mercedes Lackey
I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day. -- Mercedes Lackey
Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why ... -- Mercedes Lackey
There were times that Tiercel thought that the Wild Magic had a far greater sense of humor than the Light-Priests had ever spoken of, considering that to help him oppose the forces of Darkness, it had made Harrier Gillain a Wildmage. -- Mercedes Lackey
When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman. -- Mercedes Lackey
Now you're just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.: -- Mercedes Lackey
Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly - -- Mercedes Lackey
He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags -- Mercedes Lackey
And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw. -- Mercedes Lackey
If the pupil was worthy to be trained, there came a time when the master must allow the pupil to train himself, to use and become all that the master had seen in him, fulfilling his true potential. -- Mercedes Lackey
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
She couldn't catch you anyways! -- Mercedes Lackey
[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. -- Mercedes Lackey
If you would rise, do so alone. -- Mercedes Lackey
If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across. -- Mercedes Lackey
Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. -- Mercedes Lackey
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. -- Mercedes Lackey
Many of them were not problems at all, only the perception of a problem, and simply delaying a decision would make it less of a perceived problem with every passing day. -- Mercedes Lackey
They didn't have to be true to be good. -- Mercedes Lackey
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. -- Mercedes Lackey
Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. -- Mercedes Lackey
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go. -- Mercedes Lackey
Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve! -- Mercedes Lackey
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 Lackey
You look like you've swallowed a live fish, and you're not certain if you're enjoying the experience. -- Mercedes Lackey
No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don't seem to believe we can take care of ourselves." "Which is ridiculous," Rosa agreed, "Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that. -- Mercedes Lackey
his nose in the door and -- Mercedes Lackey
From what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone. -- Mercedes Lackey
There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way. -- Mercedes Lackey
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.
Shin'a'in saying -- Mercedes Lackey
Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies. -- Mercedes Lackey
I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else. -- Mercedes Lackey
We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving. -- Mercedes Lackey
Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like. -- Mercedes Lackey
Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it
teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday. -- Mercedes Lackey
Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but ... Ancaladar ate the horse. -- Mercedes Lackey
We can rebuild. We can't resurrect." I -- Mercedes Lackey
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. -- Mercedes Lackey
Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master. -- Mercedes Lackey
But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love. -- Mercedes Lackey
Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot. -- Mercedes Lackey
Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace. -- Mercedes Lackey
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. -- Mercedes Lackey
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
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. -- Mercedes Lackey
One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face. -- Mercedes Lackey
Magic, like technology, is a tool. -- Mercedes Lackey
I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. -- Mercedes Lackey
