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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.

Mercedes Lackey

…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

Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.

first-sentence, zombies

Mercedes Lackey

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.

altruism, heroes, heroism

Mercedes Lackey

Witch’ is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they’re crazy. We don’t do things like that. Our number-one law is ‘Have fun in this lifetime, but don’t hurt anybody.’Nice little paraphrase of “An it harm none, do as ye will” if I do say so myself.

wiccans, witchcraft, witches

Mercedes Lackey

If it is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid. (a Shin’a’in saying)

stupid, stupidity, trying

Mercedes Lackey

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn’t sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

insanity, laughter, sanity

Mercedes Lackey

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

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Mercedes Lackey

Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but… Ancaladar ate the horse.

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Mercedes Lackey

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

Mercedes Lackey

I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. “And that is this; which way do you want them sliced—lengthwise, or widthwise?

enemies, friend

Mercedes Lackey

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.