Quotes from Mercedes Lackey

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It's the living we fear.

Acting on what you want is something only children think is an adult prerogative.

If something doesn't break soon, I'm going to look like a Brillo pad made of nerve endings.

And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That's horror.

I can't help it; present me with a situation, and I have to think about both sides of it. I can try to suppress it, but I cannot shut off the way I think. Once knowledge is gained, there's no going back to ignorance. I think about what the other feels. I can't stop it

The bowl was always warm, and Sydney liked to sleep in it. Occasionally, since it was old, the thing would come on by itself for a moment using whatever residual magic was nearby, and the entire camp would get a fine view of Sydney licking his balls until someone noticed and shut the telcaster off.

Even evil magicians get up in the night and look for cookies, sometimes.

He was alive, and that was a great gift—so great, that it hardly seemed polite to grumble about the terms.

The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator.

Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running off to pack your bags.

You must be a real thing. I finally figured out this place has linear time. I wouldn't dream something as silly as linear time, so you've got to be real.

I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. "And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?

These "doyennes of society" were no different at bottom than the leading dames among the gossips of her own village. Within that little "society," their word was law, and the law was respectability.

I'll 'ave 'er there well afore, ma'am," the cabby said, impressed by the guinea, if by nothing else. He chirruped to his horse, who trotted off without needing a slap of the reins or a touch of the whip.

When you mourn for too long, you start to forget how to feel joy.

There was something to be said for diversity, though it sometimes did complicate matters.

You always have to do things before you think you are ready,: Rolan observed. :That's just life.:

Clarice concentrated on taking deep breaths. Men did not burst into tears, no matter how terrible the tragedy.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

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.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)