Quotes by Mercedes Lackey

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

Were none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we cant be rocked off our feet by bad times. Its the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you werent the one to put it there.

You have a long history, he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy. Lanya glanced at the sky.

Once the blinders are off, its rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

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.

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

Im tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

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

Weapons master is giving me special lessons. she (Amily) chuckled. He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.

Its easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

Im tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. “And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?

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.

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.