Mercedes Lackey Quotes

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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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We have more televangelists per square mile here in this part of the country than I really care to think about. Maybe somebody out there will figure out how to spray for them.

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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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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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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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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

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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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It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

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

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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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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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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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Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

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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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Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

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It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

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The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

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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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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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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

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You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

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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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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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Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

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

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Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

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