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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b08022 | The reasons for bearing young should simply be love and respect for the incipient child, and for the world they will be born into. If it took more effort to produce a child than the exercise of a moment's lust, perhaps there might be less misery in this world. Perhaps my gryphons will be happier creatures than their creator. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 0a8d3e9 | There were all kinds of things that people could have done and should have done that would have prevented it. And they didn't. Because the people in power liked where they were just fine, thanks, and they stayed there because of people with money. And the people with the money didn't want to lose a single cent of that money doing the right things. Power makes you stop thinking of anything but yourself. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 36d0616 | As she sat there, her feeling of loneliness increased. And this was strange, because she had always been solitary, and did not usually feel lonely when alone. But she watched Gina with Adam and- -and she realized that she wasn't happy being solitary anymore. But the person she was happiest with wasn't a person. It was Periapt. Being with him was like being with the perfect companion. He was clever. He was kind, at least to her- though he ha.. | falling-in-love in-common periapt princess-andromeda | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 1406f87 | her umbrella was of the same style as that of their formidable friend from Egypt, solid enough to knock a man unconscious, with a sharpened ferrule that could, at a pinch, be used to stab someone. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| a49afef | As usual she was in the "library," curled up with her back against his stomach, sitting on his folded legs. It was very comforting to be there. The thing was, it was also beginning to feel a great deal like an embrace. Not that she'd had a lot of experience with embraces. Once in a while as a child she had gotten a hug from someone, though not for a long while now. But- This definitely felt like an embrace. It felt wonderful, in fact. Was t.. | embrace | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 52970e9 | an untutored lout with a sledgehammer could kill you just as dead as an assassin with a stiletto. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 609134a | just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 576041c | defensively. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7df0ab9 | animal in the sitter (a tendency that, | Donna Tartt | ||
| 99c034b | My eyes hurt," she said plaintively, as he surveyed the stacks of books they hadn't read yet. "Then by all means, we will save your eyes for a bit," Peri said, with a chuckle that rumbled inside his chest. He put his head down along his folded forelegs and looked up at her with an amused expression. "What are you thinking about?" he asked. "That I've never known anyone it was easier to be- friends with," she said, hesitating a moment over t.. | andromeda-and-periapt attraction companionship relationship | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 1c639a9 | There are always people who aren't human, who think the only thing in the world that matters is themselves. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| da1806c | My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don't think I want to know. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| b0a4bba | Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| b4b993a | Anyway, you're to have four sets- to match jewels, I suppose- white gold, pale gold, yellow gold and rose gold. Can't have your oculars clashing with your bracelets, I suppose. I'll send the 'prentice up with them later. I'm waiting for the frames to cool now." "If the Princess is not here, you can leave them with her handmaiden, Iris," Lady Thalia put in, and came around to take a look at the Sophont's handiwork. She blinked. "Good heavens.. | glasses princess-andromeda | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 7b882ec | If something doesn't break soon, I'm going to look like a Brillo pad made of nerve endings. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 538c29a | She felt him shifting himself under her and around her, rearranging himself, until she was being held in a real embrace. She opened blurring eyes to find that he had tucked her between his forelegs with his neck curled around her. "Shhh-" he said, as she closed her eyes and threw her arms around his warm, soft, slippery neck. "I know, I know. It's all horrible. Just go ahead and cry, Andie. Go ahead and let it out. I think you've been holdi.. | comfort crying heartbreaking mother-and-daughter | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 7e988a3 | Too often have I seen human parents who were too young, too unstable, or otherwise unfit or unready for children produce child after doomed, mistreated child. I will have none of this for these, my gryphons. By watching them, and then training others what to watch for, I can discover which pairings are loving and stable, which would-be parents have the patience and understanding to be parents. And in this way, perhaps my creations will have.. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4291af3 | Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, "She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running off to pack your bags." | girl-power humor | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 88c6343 | Her attention wandered, and she began staring at the clouds, dreamily watching them drift over the city. When she was little, she wished she could fly up there and play, or even, when things were particularly miserable, stay there forever. She'd never told anyone, but she used to daydream about trapping one of the flying horses that were supposed to live in the mountains, or finding some other way of getting up there. The idea of living in .. | up-in-the-sky | Mercedes Lackey | |
| b9197c0 | Think twice, act once, is what everyone says. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4be6e18 | And revenge generally turns out to be a lot less satisfying than you think it will be. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 884663d | Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 062f7ca | There are more than enough people in this world who only want cheaper goods, and don't care how they're made, or what the hidden costs are. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| d3c23f2 | Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 5d42f8c | They camped at night among evergreens, and George showed her how to make use of her herbs for a lentil stew for breakfast. She already was thinking longingly of the food back in the Palace- though, she was ravenous enough to have eaten almost anything. But their fare was plain in the extreme and even though there was quite enough to keep her from feeling hungry, still, images of roast fowl, lamb, bowls of ripe fruit and yogurt, fresh bread .. | luxuries princess-andromeda | Mercedes Lackey | |
| d7695ca | No, it's not you," Abi managed to interrupt her. "Actually, it's not anyone. Not even my best friend Kat. Or Rudi or Emmit or Brice or--well, it's not anyone. It's never been anyone." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| e5bbc5f | No, General. Not necessarily what you thin you want. Your heart knows what you want, but often your head has some other idea. It is the task of the kesta'chern to ask your heart, and not your head, what you need and answer that need. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| acdc7cb | Three things trust and cherish well-- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches And your sister at your side! | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 7e56f4d | Oh, well. I'll just tuck it in my subconscious, and it'll wake me up in the middle of the night, probably. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 91db773 | If something went right, it was a teaching thing, and if something went wrong...it was a teaching thing. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4c8c648 | Have I mentioned before that being responsible sucks? | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 27f6575 | There's your real heroes--the people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 436f25b | There are times when--when being alone is a hurt that's worse than dying. When it's easier to die than to be alone. Aren't there? | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 1c77c1d | We could also come to the question of motive, although as any good detective will tell you, you need to find the means first, then the opportunity, all bolstered by evidence, and then you will have the motive without needing to look for it. You don't immediately go about accusing every random person who has motive to kill someone." He chuckled. "If you did that, you'd be arresting a great many innocent people." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 659a65e | That's religion as an excuse. Sometimes it seems to me that when religious fervor enters the mind, the wits pack up entirely and fly out the ear," Karal replied a bit sourly. "But worst of all is when powerful, ruthless people use the religious fervor of others to further their own greed." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 91cd9f7 | You must be a real thing. I finally figured out this place has linear time. I wouldn't dream something as silly as linear time, so you've got to be real. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 3c609f0 | I'd been going to study Pre-Flowering History," Tiercel offered. "Now you're living it," Kave said." | character-tiercel james-mallory living-history location-10055 mercedes-lackey page-438 study the-phoenix-transformed | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 5a0d599 | So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black. | character-tiercel humor inside-joke james-mallory location-2115 mercedes-lackey page-120 the-phoenix-unchained | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 565b517 | There were times that Tiercel thought that the Wild Magic had a far greater sense of humor than the Light-Priests had ever spoken of, considering that to help him oppose the forces of Darkness, it had made Harrier Gillain a Wildmage. | character-tiercel james-mallory location-6246 mercedes-lackey the-phoenix-endangered wildmage | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 7566764 | You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy." Lanya glanced at the sky." | character-lanya elves james-mallory location-1558 mercedes-lackey stories the-phoenix-endangered weather | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 7b867e5 | Cogitanti omnia vilescunt" He who thinks, undervalues all things. | Alphonsus Liguori | ||
| c693198 | I was confused by this sudden glare of attention; it was as if the characters in a favorite painting, absorbed in their own concerns, had looked up out of the canvas and spoken to me. Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. For | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2313c10 | Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be, | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| d363011 | Magical, unbelievably magical, Unicorns practically breathed magic. He was to a horse what a horse was to a pig. Four tiny cloven hooves shone like burnished silver, slender legs as graceful as an antelope's led to a slender body, a delicate neck with an arch like the stem of a lily-blossom and a head like the blossom itself, crowned with that glorious pearly horn. And the eyes- big golden-brown eyes you could fall into and never come out o.. | unicorns virgins | Mercedes Lackey |