The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
Mercedes LackeyThree 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 LackeyHarrier 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 LackeyI have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind
Mercedes LackeyThereโs no such thing as `one, true wayโ; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good โ theyโre the things worth living and dying for, and if you arenโt willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
Mercedes Lackey