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By the Sword

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Famous Mercedes Lackey Quotes

“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.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Ship Who Searched

Source: The Ship Who Searched

“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.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Wizard of London

Source: The Wizard of London

“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Spirits White as Lightning

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

Mercedes Lackey book Owlknight

Source: Owlknight

“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.”

Mercedes Lackey book Alta

Source: Alta

“Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

Mercedes Lackey Quotes about time

“We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Intrigues

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

Mercedes Lackey book The Phoenix Unchained

Source: The Phoenix Unchained

“Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Beauty and the Werewolf

Mercedes Lackey Quotes

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

Mercedes Lackey

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

Mercedes Lackey

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

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Elvenborn

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

Mercedes Lackey book Exile's Honor

Source: Exile's Honor

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

Mercedes Lackey book The Black Gryphon

Source: The Black Gryphon

“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.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

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

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Intrigues

“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”

Mercedes Lackey book Owlflight

Source: Owlflight

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Black Gryphon

Source: The Black Gryphon

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

Mercedes Lackey book Alta

Source: Alta

“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!”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: The Oathbound

“Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Changes

“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.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: The Silver Gryphon

“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!”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: The Eagle & the Nightingales

“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Sacred Ground

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

Mercedes Lackey Reserved for the Cat

Source: Reserved for the Cat

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

Mercedes Lackey

Source: Four & Twenty Blackbirds

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

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

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

Mercedes Lackey book Owlknight

Source: Owlknight

“And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Fairy Godmother

"A Q&A with Mercedes Lackey...",The Fairy Godmother (Luna, 2004), after the epilogue.

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

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

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

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

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

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

“Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.”

Mercedes Lackey book The Wizard of London

Source: The Wizard of London

“Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals.”

Mercedes Lackey book Winds of Fury

Winds of Fury

“We have more televangelists per square mile here in this part of the country than I really care to think about. Maybe somebody out there will figure out how to spray for them.”

Mercedes Lackey

Introduction to "Small Print", Fiddler Fair (Baen, 1998), p. 18

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