Quotes by Mercedes Lackey

About Mercedes Lackey:

Mercedes Ritchie Lackey is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores.
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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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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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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,...

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Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

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Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and...

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It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

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We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

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Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but...

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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.

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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

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Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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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 yo...

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

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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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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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Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

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You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.

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Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.

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I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

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Author Bio

  • NameMercedes Lackey
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist and short story writer
  • BornJune 24, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Short Story Writer; Writer
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award