Top 100 Mercedes Lackey Quotes
#1. Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
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#2. My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.
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#3. These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.
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#4. [ ... ] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"
He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts.
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#5. I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it,
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#6. You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,
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#8. Kethry had once described summoning as being like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.
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#9. 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.
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#10. When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
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#11. You are speaking to a cat. If you do not believe this is magic, what do you think it is? She
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#12. We are to call hares ad become mushrooms," Jermayan explained kindly. "Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror."
"Yes of course," Kellen said, with only a touch of irony."That makes perfect sense.
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#13. It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
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#16. Talia was always intimidated by her presence, and always felt she looked hoydenish and disheveled, no matter how carefully she'd prepared herself for confrontations.
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#17. We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.
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#18. So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black.
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#19. Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
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#20. She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.
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#21. 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.
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#23. That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
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#25. Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel'enedra. Love must ever live free.
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#26. If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
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#28. There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.
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#29. From what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
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#30. Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones
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#31. I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Yeah, and if I have to choose between being eaten by the Endarkened and telling my Da I'm a Wildmage, I'm not sure which I'd pick.
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#34. Many of them were not problems at all, only the perception of a problem, and simply delaying a decision would make it less of a perceived problem with every passing day.
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#35. When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.
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#36. 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!
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#37. You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said.
Yeah, Eugens said shakily. ' ... Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
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#38. 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 -
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#39. 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.
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#40. Now you're just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.:
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#41. Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
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#42. Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies.
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#43. [Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.
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#46. The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.
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#47. It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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#48. Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a goat. And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Vestakia the Redeemed in The Book of the Light. They're people.' [Tiercel Rolfort]
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#50. Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty.
Yes. No. I don't know. I ... Yes. No.
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#53. Still, she assured herself as she unpacked her suitcase on the bed, Marx wrote his Manifesto one word at a time, with but pen and ink. Modest tools that moved a world! So shall we.
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#55. Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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#56. Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running of to pack your bags.
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#57. We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.
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#58. Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out ... hurts worse than a lie.
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#61. Keep breathing. Exhale all the hurt and sorrow, inhale the untainted air.
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#62. 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.
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#63. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
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#64. when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As
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#65. Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor's defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.
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#66. Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.
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#68. Had she been fully white, had she been a man, Alderscroft would have had her brought into the fold and properly taught immediately.
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#69. 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.
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#70. Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It
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#71. To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join - that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways.
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#72. For a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe
or hope
for anything.
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#73. Muddling along ... is the great secret to life ... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen - Gallen in Intrigues
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#75. It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
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#76. No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don't seem to believe we can take care of ourselves." "Which is ridiculous," Rosa agreed, "Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that.
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#77. If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I
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#78. It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
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#79. There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.
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#80. He held out the bottle. Clarice's hand was steady as she took it from him. It is poison, she thought distantly. It will kill her. She tried to be horrified at the thought, but she couldn't manage it.
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#81. Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why ...
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#82. Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.
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#83. I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day.
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#84. 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 k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)
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#86. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. They called Matthew March "autistic" as a child. What no one had known was that he was not closed into a world of his own, he was far, far too open to the real one.
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#89. It's 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
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#90. And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.
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#91. I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.
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#93. Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.
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#95. 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!
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#96. Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.
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#97. Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father - but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.
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#100. 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.
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