Quotes from Mercedes Lackey

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

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.

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

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.

You are eccentric when you have enough money to not be considered crazy

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.

My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be," Gan said pleasantly.

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.

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.

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

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.

No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.:

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

Ree- Grey barked into the icy silence. Lax! The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being- Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.

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.

Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.

They called Matthew March autistic as a child. What no one had known was that he was not closed into a world of his own, he was far, far too open to the real one.

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.

I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day.

What is courage? its chorus asked--and the song answered, It is to give when hope is gone, when there is no chance that men may call you a hero, when you have tried and failed and rise to try again. It asked the same of friendship, answering that the friend stands beside you when you are right and all others despise you for it.

Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals.

We are to call hares ad become mushrooms, Jermayan explained kindly. Presumimg Kindolhinadetil will grant us the load of a mirror. Yes of course, Kellen said, with only a touch of irony.That makes perfect sense.

I'm consumed with curiosity because if I know Dirk, he probably sent his family a two-tine note—I'm getting married. I'll be there in a week,—and no further explanation whatsoever. Skif laughed, and admitted that that was just about what Dirk had written, word for word.