Top 140 Mercedes Lackey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.”

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103. “She just dropped it and ran!!”

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104. “Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father – but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.”

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105. “No matter what tears were shed or what trials were faced, some things would stay the same. There would always be day and night, stars and sky, hope and rest. There would always be love, always compassion, and there would always be Skandranon. And forever, in the hearts of all the Clans, there would be Urtho – and for his memory, a moment of silence.”

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106. “And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.”

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107. “By Zeus’s goolies, it’s about time you got here!”

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108. “Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can’t imagine why...”

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109. “Ain’t necessarily ’bout bein’ the ‘right one’ so much as it is bein’ the one that’s there an’ willin’.”

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110. “There are no excuses,” he said at last. “But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way.”

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111. “The tray held herb tea, buttered bread, fruit and sheep’s-milk yogurt mixed with honey, something Andie particularly liked first thing in the morning. It was, in fact, breakfast in bed.”

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112. “One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.”

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113. “My kith and kin have long since vanished into time –.”

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114. “Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch.”

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115. “They didn’t have to be true to be good.”

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116. “There’s no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there’s a great deal of money in that man’s pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.”

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117. “Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.”

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118. “That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.”

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119. “Whenever things seemed to be ticking along like clockwork, somewhere under the surface there were always gears slipping.”

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120. “You find them in any Kingdom,” she said, “if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.”

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121. “If you want to make your enemy into something you can hate, you first remove his humanity... Had Ulrich said that at one point, or had that been something he’d heard during one of Solaris’ speeches? It was true, whoever had said it, and the Chronicles had certainly tried to remove all vestige of humanity from these Heralds. Make them only icons. 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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122. “Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not.”

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123. “Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks?”

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124. “No matter how many times we prove otherwise, the men don’t seem to believe we can take care of ourselves.” “Which is ridiculous,” Rosa agreed, “Especially when you consider how many settler women over there on their frontier are doing just that.”

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125. “Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It.”

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126. “We could also come to the question of motive, although as any good detective will tell you, you need to find the means first, then the opportunity, all bolstered by evidence, and then you will have the motive without needing to look for it. You don’t immediately go about accusing every random person who has motive to kill someone.” He chuckled. “If you did that, you’d be arresting a great many innocent people.”

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127. “Goodbye, Mac,” she said for the last time, and left unsaid a million more things.”

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128. “There were all kinds of things that people could have done and should have done that would have prevented it. And they didn’t. Because the people in power liked where they were just fine, thanks, and they stayed there because of people with money. And the people with the money didn’t want to lose a single cent of that money doing the right things. Power makes you stop thinking of anything but yourself.”

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129. “This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the law, and the law is iron-bound and iron-clad and has no room in it for exceptions, then it’s no longer a religion for humans, it’s a religion for paper-pushers, painted saints, and marble statues.”

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130. “There’s your real heroes – the people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them.”

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131. “He studied a roll, weighing it in his hand. It seemed awfully heavy. As good as the food had been so far, it didn’t seem likely that it was underbaked, but he was not in the mood to choke down raw dough. He nibbled it dubiously, then bit into it with a great deal more enthusiasm when it proved to have sausage baked into the middle of it.”

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132. “Mostly, though, Jonaton talked about geometry, Imaging, herbs and cures, and his cats. Anyone’s cats, really. Often, he brought Imager pictures of various cats, and added funny captions to them. They always raised laughs as they were passed table to table.”

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133. “I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.”

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134. “And revenge generally turns out to be a lot less satisfying than you think it will be.”

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135. “Oh, well. I’ll just tuck it in my subconscious, and it’ll wake me up in the middle of the night, probably.”

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136. “Good bed, deep sleep, big breakfast, and one could outpace anything except a Night Person. Their ways were mysterious and full of cats.”

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137. “And the Emperor’s dunderheaded idiot Knights of the Throne would refuse to ride a mare or a gelding. This made absolutely no sense at all, of course. If Kordas had been an enemy commander, one of his first moves would be to send a loose, wild mare in heat out onto the battlefield as soon as the Knights put in an appearance, but in the Empire, when masculine ego came into play, logic flew right out the window.”

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138. “Life isn’t fair’ is nothing but an excuse people make to justify bad things they do. But why shouldn’t life be fair? What’s keeping it from being fair? Those same cruel, mean, and evil people. I think you understand that, Mags – maybe not in your head, but in your heart, which is more important. And the more people there are who try to make life fair, the more likely it is that it will become fair. Don’t you want that?:.”

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139. “Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it.”

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140. “I’m going to be just as nasty as you are – but I’m going to do it with more style.”

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141. “I look like I just got dragged behind a slow-moving horse through ten acres of wait-a-minute bushes.”

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142. “Your Grandfather,” said Vanyel’s brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, “was Crazy.”

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143. “Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls.”

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144. “Tiny rooms opened up onto the corridor, rooms that would have been like monastic cells if each of the girls hadn’t made hers comfortable in her own way and according to her own taste. As she passed, Andie got glimpses of a riot of draped fabrics like a gypsy tent in one, a tapestry loom in another, painted murals of garden scenes in a third.”

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145. “And in Magic, belief is the most important component.”

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