Top 140 Mercedes Lackey Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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2. “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

— Mercedes Lackey

3. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

4. “Once the blinders are off, it’s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”

— Mercedes Lackey

5. “Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”

— Mercedes Lackey

6. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

7. “Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”

— Mercedes Lackey

8. “How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.”

— Mercedes Lackey

9. “I’m tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.”

— Mercedes Lackey

10. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

11. “Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.”

— Mercedes Lackey

12. “Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.”

— Mercedes Lackey

13. “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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14. “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?”

— Mercedes Lackey

15. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

16. “If I’m walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”

— Mercedes Lackey

17. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

19. “Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.”

— Mercedes Lackey

20. “It isn’t wise to be rude to one’s mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”

— Mercedes Lackey

21. “Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.”

— Mercedes Lackey

22. “Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure.”

— Mercedes Lackey

23. “I’m tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.”

— Mercedes Lackey

24. “It’s only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it’s gathering information.”

— Mercedes Lackey

25. “If you would rise, do so alone.”

— Mercedes Lackey

26. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

27. “If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not ‘honor’ but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.”

— Mercedes Lackey

28. “If he didn’t get out of here – right now – Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.”

— Mercedes Lackey

29. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

30. “Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion – it’s usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”

— Mercedes Lackey

31. “Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.”

— Mercedes Lackey

32. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

34. “There is no one true way. This is how we live in peace with each other. This is how we live in peace with those outside our borders who do not seek to impose their ways on us. And this is the only way we can continue to live in peace.”

— Mercedes Lackey

35. “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”

— Mercedes Lackey

36. “The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”

— Mercedes Lackey

37. “A quaint conceit, don’t you think?”

— Mercedes Lackey

38. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

39. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

40. “It’s hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time – and priorities.”

— Mercedes Lackey

41. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

42. “Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one.”

— Mercedes Lackey

43. “I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. – Steelmind.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

45. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

46. “Magic, like technology, is a tool.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

48. “Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren’t the one to put it there.”

— Mercedes Lackey

49. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

50. “When they are seen as a type, and not as individuals, they are easy for a fanatical mind to grasp – and hate.”

— Mercedes Lackey