Mercedes Lackey Quotes

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

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.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

If you would rise, do so alone.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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!

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.

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

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

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

I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

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.

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

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