Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
Mercedes Lackey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mercedes Lackey
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Short Story Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey
Time
Laying
Traps
Waste
Creatures
Wouldn
Knew
Dark
Someone
Elaborate
More quotes by Mercedes Lackey
One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.
Mercedes Lackey
If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!
Mercedes Lackey
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes Lackey
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
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Mercedes Lackey
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
Mercedes Lackey
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.
Mercedes Lackey
I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
Mercedes Lackey
Harrier twisted himself sideways on his saddle to stare at him [Tiercel]. 'You had a vision,' he said flaty. Yes. No. I don't know. I...Yes. No.
Mercedes Lackey
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
Mercedes Lackey
You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
Mercedes Lackey
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
Mercedes Lackey
The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
Mercedes Lackey
If you would rise, do so alone.
Mercedes Lackey
There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
Mercedes Lackey
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.
Mercedes Lackey
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Mercedes Lackey
