Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Ritchie Lackeyis an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1950
clever hero cad
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
freedom swings noses
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
hurt feet forgiving
Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.
ice might way
If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across
people sometimes terrible
... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
thinking quaint conceit
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
passion people trouble
Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.
technology magic tools
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
moving keep-moving dies
Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.
glasses woods break
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
song hero fate
The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
mean fighting numbers
It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.
war thinking ideas
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
sky doe shells
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.