Quotes from Mercedes Lackey

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.

There's more than enough seriousness in the world.

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

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

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

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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

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

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.

Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

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.

When I am down, there is nothing like a bowl of hot popcorn; popcorn means great movies and reading fantasy books wrapped up in a soft blanket to me.

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.

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.

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.