Mercedes Lackey

“It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.”

“There's more than enough seriousness in the world.”

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

“You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.”

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

“Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.”

“There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.”

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”

“When I am down, there is nothing like a bowl of hot popcorn; popcorn means great movies and reading fantasy books wrapped up in a soft blanket to me.”

“Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!”

“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?”

“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”

“I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in.”

“Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.”

“Magic, like technology, is a tool.”

“This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)”

“Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.”

“She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.”

“Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.”

“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”