“Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“Remember this always: to have something, sometimes you must be willing to lose it. Love must live free, jel’enedra. Love must ever live free.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“You look like you’ve swallowed a live fish, and you’re not certain if you’re enjoying the experience.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
“How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from Oathbreakers
Mercedes Lackey
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 24, 1950
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“Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?”
― Gillian Flynn, quote from Dark Places
“Where, indeed? Captain Vincent Reed had been born in the city of Richmond, Virginia, of northern parents who were stationed there by the telegraph company. He had attended West Point and he thought he knew something about warfare, having served under General Pope in his long and futile struggle against General Stonewall Jackson. Those men were fighters who would face the enemy till the last bullet was fired, but neither would participate in such a slaughter.
Reed had had his troops in position. He was quite prepared to rush in for the kill, and he had positioned himself so that he would be in the vanguard when his men made their charge against the guns of the young braves threatening the left flank. But when he saw that the enemy had no weapons, that even their bows and arrows were not at hand, and that he was supposed to chop down little girls and old women, he rebelled on the spot, taking counsel with no one but his own conscience.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Centennial
“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“En cierto sentido Shea parecía no ver que las cosas cambiaban ni incluso cuando el sol se movía desde el este al oeste en el cielo. No parecía darse cuenta de que los países y las gentes crecían y se expandían otra vez, que las guerras del pasado se olvidaban lentamente. Shea creía que uno podía volver la espalda al pasado y construir un nuevo mundo con el futuro, sin entender que el futuro estaba intrincadamente enlazado con el pasado, formando un tapiz de acontecimientos e ideas entretejidos que nunca podrían separarse del todo. Por su carácter, el pequeño valense era parte del pasado; sus creencias, un recuerdo del ayer más que una promesa de futuro.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The Sword of Shannara
“Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times”
― Todd Burpo, quote from Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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