Quote

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

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
Running
Counts
Place
None
Back
Feet
Long
Quite
World
Sure
Getting
Times
Fall
Rocked

More quotes by 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
She just dropped it and ran!!
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
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
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.
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
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
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
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
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
Mercedes Lackey
Image
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
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
He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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
Image
Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.
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
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?
Mercedes Lackey
Image
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