Quote

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

Mercedes Lackey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Things
Wasted
Doomed
Message
Messages
Flower
Journey
Three
Blighted
Ends
Bloomed

More quotes by Mercedes Lackey

Image
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
Image
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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
Image
It's hard being a rock they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
. . . 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
Image
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
I think I know why you never married, Sarah. Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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
Image
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
She just dropped it and ran!!
Mercedes Lackey
Image
If you would rise, do so alone.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
Mercedes Lackey