Top 100 Mercedes Lackey Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
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#3. There were times that Tiercel thought that the Wild Magic had a far greater sense of humor than the Light-Priests had ever spoken of, considering that to help him oppose the forces of Darkness, it had made Harrier Gillain a Wildmage.
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#4. 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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#5. I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.
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#11. 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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#12. Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.
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#13. 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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#14. He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
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#15. Ain't necessarily 'bout bein' the 'right one' so much as it is bein' the one that's there an' willin'.
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#16. He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags
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#17. 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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#19. 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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#20. Evil done in the name of a Power of good is still evil. And good done in the name of a Power of evil is still good.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that.
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#24. Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be,
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#25. Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.
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#26. Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing!
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#27. My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey.
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#28. Cats. You can't live with them, and the fur's too thin for a rug.
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#29. 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
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#30. 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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#31. what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He
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#32. It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
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#33. The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.
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#34. 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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#36. :No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.:
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#37. Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
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#38. Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.
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#40. 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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#41. Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value.
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#42. [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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#43. They'd get that back; when children no longer lived in fear and privation, the ability to hope was one of the first things to return. From
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#44. Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies.
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#45. Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
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#46. 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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#47. How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.
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#48. 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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#49. I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.
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#50. But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. It was partly a matter of the simple fact that late fall was slaughtering time. Anything that could not be preserved had to be eaten. For instance, hens too old to lay eggs anymore and all the roosters but the chief of the flock were often killed at this time.
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#55. You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.
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#56. 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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#57. Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.
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#58. 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?
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#59. Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.
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#60. Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion - it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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#61. 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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#63. You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy,
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#64. Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen
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#65. [ ... ] 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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#66. We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.
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#67. In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.
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#68. There will always be bad times ... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues
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#69. I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note - "I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week," - and no further explanation whatsoever."
Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.
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#70. There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
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#78. I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.
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#79. If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
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#80. The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.
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#82. If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)
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#83. 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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#85. That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
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#86. Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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#88. 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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#89. Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.
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#90. Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
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#91. 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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#92. It was Mags' turn to snort. But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th' same room at th' same time.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
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#96. 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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#97. :They spend a quarter of their lives writing things down, a quarter finding what other people have written down, a quarter hiding what was written down, and a quarter making sure if it should have been written down and wasn't, it is now.:
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#98. When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp - and hate.
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#99. It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.
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#100. 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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