Quotes by Mercedes Lackey

“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.”

“Why should you find a mind attractive enough to put up with a crippled, aging body? Im half again your age-why is it that when were talking you make me feel no age at all? or every age? How is it that you challenge my mind as well as my heart? How did you make me come alive again?”

“Theres always going to be fighting. People of honor have to be a part of that, because if they arent, the only ones fighting will be the ones who dont care, who have no honor, and no concern for how many others die if all the fighting is done by people with no conscience, there wont be any safety anywhere for the people who only want peace.”

“These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.”

“It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if theyre good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.”

“If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, dont you think its 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.”

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shinain saying

If Im walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.

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.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Im not out to disturb anybodys faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I dont give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not whos name you do it in.

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.

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

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of danger on the floor around them. Look, its danger, dont step in it!

There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance kTreva (Magics Pawn)

You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.