“... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Fairy Godmother
“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Fairy Godmother
“...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Fairy Godmother
“Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Fairy Godmother
“And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That’s horror.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Fairy Godmother
Mercedes Lackey
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 24, 1950
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“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Summer Before the Dark
“again and opened the other. “This is my financing.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Key to Rebecca
“I hate patience. Slows everything down.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Witness in Death
“L'anémone et l'ancolie
Ont poussé dans le jardin
Où dort la mélancolie
Entre l'amour et le dédain
Il y vient aussi nos ombres
Que la nuit dissipera
Le soleil qui les rend sombres
Avec elles disparaîtra
Les déités des eaux vives
Laissent couler leurs cheveux
Passe il faut que tu poursuives
Cette belle ombre que tu veux”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, quote from Alcools
“When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.”
― John le Carré, quote from The Russia House
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