Mercedes Lackey Quotes - Page 3

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• I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Book, Writing, Events

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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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  Fashion, Betrayal, Heart

  Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.146, Penguin

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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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  Dog, Cat, Thinking

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Phoenix and Ashes: Elemental Masters #3”, p.132, Penguin

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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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  Sky, Doe, Shells

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.52, Penguin

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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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  Hug, Ifs, Hug You

  Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Margaret Ball (2003). “Brain Ships”, p.48, Baen Books

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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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  Dream, Dog, Secret

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.121, Penguin

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

  Mercedes Lackey

  Can Do

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• It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Wise, Mother, Childhood

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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!

  Mercedes Lackey

  Names, Long, Giving

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.56, Penguin

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• There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

  Mercedes Lackey

  Getting Back Up, Bad Times, Intrigue

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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, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

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  Men, Boys, Interesting

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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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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  Passion, People, Trouble

  Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Four and Twenty Blackbirds”, p.238, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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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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  Laughter, Hysterical, Break

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.189, Macmillan

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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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  Eye, Remember, Locked

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.221, Macmillan

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• ... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Fantasy, Horror, Written

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• 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.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Desert, Might, Yeah

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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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  Dark, Waste, Traps

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2007). “The Phoenix Unchained: Book One of The Enduring Flame”, p.283, Macmillan

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• 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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  Two, Voice, Somewhere Under

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• 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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  Dog, Forever, Three

  Mercedes Lackey (2008). “Firebird”, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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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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  Passion, One Day, Driven

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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• ... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

  Mercedes Lackey

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

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

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  Mean, Civilization, Barbarism

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.209, Penguin

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• Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

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  Lying, Heart, Night

  Mercedes Lackey (2015). “The Mage Winds”, p.531, Titan Books

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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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  Mother, Voice, Calm

  Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon (1997). “The Silver Gryphon”, p.211, Penguin

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• ...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

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  Dying, Way

  Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory (2009). “The Phoenix Transformed: Book Three of the Enduring Flame”, p.98, Macmillan

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