Mercedes Lackey Quotes

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

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

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

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.

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

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

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.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

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.

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.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

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

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

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

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

[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.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.

If you would rise, do so alone.

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!

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?

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.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

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

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.

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

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

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

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

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.