Quote

If you would rise, do so alone.

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
Rise
Alone
Would

More quotes by Mercedes Lackey

Image
In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.
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
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
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
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
Image
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
Image
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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
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
There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts. - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
Image
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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
Image
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.
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
In a dog's world, only three states existed: now, in a while, and forever. If someone left, he was gone forever, and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone forever.
Mercedes Lackey