“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 OwlflightSource: Owlflight
“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
“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
“I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.”Mercedes Lackey book OwlknightSource: Owlknight