Top 140 Mercedes Lackey Quotes (2025 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. “Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”

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

— 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.”

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

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

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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

11. “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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12. “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.”

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

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15. “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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16. “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

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.”

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

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

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20. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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26. “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

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

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “Love now–a good, solid love is something infinitely rarer and more difficult to maintain, because you don’t know everything your partner is feeling. Love takes work. Love means being able to apologize and mean it when you blunder. Love is worth fighting for!”

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31. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

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

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34. “There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.”

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

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36. “You don’t spend most of your life in other people’s heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.”

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

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38. “That’s religion as an excuse. Sometimes it seems to me that when religious fervor enters the mind, the wits pack up entirely and fly out the ear,” Karal replied a bit sourly. “But worst of all is when powerful, ruthless people use the religious fervor of others to further their own greed.”

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39. “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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40. “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.”

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41. “There are times when – when being alone is a hurt that’s worse than dying. When it’s easier to die than to be alone. Aren’t there?”

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42. “Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to be nothing is a decision, Vanyel, and by deciding not to touch, so as to avoid hurt, I then hurt those who tried to touch me.”

— Mercedes Lackey

43. “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.”

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44. “If you would rise, do so alone.”

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45. “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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46. “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.”

— Mercedes Lackey

47. “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

48. “Love is as much trust as it is devotion.”

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49. “Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like.”

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50. “It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can’t ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total if it can’t possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota – the lovely, the rare, and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.”

— Mercedes Lackey