Mercedes Lackey Quotes

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

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

~ 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

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

~ Mercedes Lackey

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

~ 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

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

~ Mercedes Lackey

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

~ Mercedes Lackey

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

~ 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

The 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ Mercedes Lackey

Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.'Nice little paraphrase of An it harm none, do as ye will if I do say so myself.

~ 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

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

~ Mercedes Lackey

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

~ Mercedes Lackey

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

~ Mercedes Lackey