Mercedes Lackey Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

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

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