Mercedes Lackey Quotes - Page 2

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

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.

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

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!

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

If you would rise, do so alone.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

She just dropped it and ran!!

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

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

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

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.

Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.

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.

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