Mercedes Lackey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.”
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“You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.”
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“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”
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“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
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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 yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?”
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“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
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“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.”
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“How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.”
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“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
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“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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“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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“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across”
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“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.”
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“[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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“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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“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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“Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen”
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“There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues”
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“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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“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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“A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”
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“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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“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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“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”
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“I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.”
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“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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“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 don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.”
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“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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“... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.”
-- Mercedes Lackey
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