Top 140 Mercedes Lackey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you speak something’s name too often, it might come looking for you. I.”

— Mercedes Lackey

52. “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

53. “Don’t you see, Stef? It’s not that I’m serving Valdemar, it’s that I’m helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.”

— Mercedes Lackey

54. “I’m so bad with people I can’t even win an argument with myself.”

— Mercedes Lackey

55. “But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.”

— Mercedes Lackey

56. “Anyone who thought this would be a weak point in the manor’s defenses would have a rude surprise, shortly before coming down with a serious case of death.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

58. “Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.”

— Mercedes Lackey

59. “But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board.”

— Mercedes Lackey

60. “I’m not out to disturb anybody’s faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don’t give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who’s name you do it in.”

— Mercedes Lackey

61. “Answers are terribly seductive. The simpler they are, the more seductive they become.”

— Mercedes Lackey

62. “Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.”

— Mercedes Lackey

63. “Now you’re just being stubborn, and I am not going to sit here and tell you what you already know, when you know you know it, and I know you know it, and you know that I know you know it.:.”

— Mercedes Lackey

64. “The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.”

— Mercedes Lackey

65. “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

66. “It is a hunger with me, books. I had rather read than eat, I do think.”

— Mercedes Lackey

67. “Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals.”

— Mercedes Lackey

68. “I’m the leader of this herd of cats,” she responded. “I doubt my sanity every day.”

— Mercedes Lackey

69. “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?”

— Mercedes Lackey

70. “I believe that I shall become a curmudgeon. Then at least I can complain, and it will be expected of me.”

— Mercedes Lackey

71. “Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.”

— Mercedes Lackey

72. “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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

74. “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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

76. “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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

80. “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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

82. “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

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

— Mercedes Lackey

84. “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

85. “It’s easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance... after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place.”

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

87. “Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.”

— Mercedes Lackey

88. “We, the Sworn Sisterhood, do solemnly vow to take back Acadia from those who are responsible for the scourge of the dragon and the tempests. We will fight them with our hands and our weapons. We will fight them with the power of our conviction. We will face the enemy without fear. We will take the enemy down and bring the enemy to justice and there is nothing that can stand in our way.”

— Mercedes Lackey

89. “Why, you mean you didn’t get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?” asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. “The nerve!”

— Mercedes Lackey

90. “She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.”

— Mercedes Lackey

91. “I’m getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and carry them off. And the sad part is, I’m so old that’s the only way I can get them!”

— Mercedes Lackey

92. “There will always be bad times... It’s the getting back up again that counts.” – Gallen in “Intrigues.”

— Mercedes Lackey

93. “If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of “danger” on the floor around them. Look, it’s “danger”, don’t step in it!”

— Mercedes Lackey

94. “We can rebuild. We can’t resurrect.” I.”

— Mercedes Lackey

95. “You wicked boy! You could never keep up with me! I’ve buried two husbands, and I’ve no patience for training up a third!”

— Mercedes Lackey

96. “He is an excellent fellow, but he has one deep flaw. He cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water.: Mags.”

— Mercedes Lackey

97. “We’re given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.”

— Mercedes Lackey

98. “She just dropped it and ran!!”

— Mercedes Lackey

99. “Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.”

— Mercedes Lackey

100. “Like I said, I know bullies. Deflect, deflect, make them think they got their way even when they didn’t, but never actually give in to them. Become innocuous, not worth tormenting or thinking about.”

— Mercedes Lackey