“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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“Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.”
― J.G. Farrell, quote from The Siege of Krishnapur
“Hamilton found it difficult to concentrate on what Eliza was saying. Her lips were moving rapidly, but he couldn't actually decipher what the words coming out of her mouth were. It was such a lovely mouth, and he found it quite quirky, given the fact that it could assume different positions with alarming frequency. Like now, it was pursed in a most attractive manner, and now... it was moving again as if the lady could not get the words out fast enough. His gaze traveled upward, past the eyes that were flashing and settled on her hair. He couldn't help but appreciate the efforts of Mabel. The curls she'd been able to produce on Eliza's head, well, they were tantalizing. He had the strangest urge to reach out and touch them, to feel with his own hand if they were as soft as they appeared, something he'd been contemplating ever since he got a good look at her in the dining room. He pulled abruptly back to reality when Eliza poked him in the chest.”
― Jen Turano, quote from A Change of Fortune
“Liv,” he said, his voice rough with tenderness, “you don’t have to be afraid.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’ll slay monsters for you.”
― Nina Lane, quote from Arouse
“For ‘terrorists’, read ‘guerrillas’ or – as President Ronald Reagan would call them in the years to come – ‘freedom fighters’. Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists. In the Middle East, in the entire Muslim world, this word would become a plague, a meaningless punctuation mark in all our lives, a full stop erected to finish all discussion of injustice, constructed as a wall by Russians, Americans, Israelis, British, Pakistanis, Saudis, Turks, to shut us up. Who would ever say a word in favour of terrorists? What cause could justify terror? So our enemies are always ‘terrorists’. In the seventeenth century, governments used ‘heretic’ in much the same way, to end all dialogue, to prescribe obedience.”
― Robert Fisk, quote from The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
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