I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

— Mercedes Lackey

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wars in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.

— Mercedes Lackey

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

— Mercedes Lackey

I think I know why you never married, Sarah."" Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

— Mercedes Lackey

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

— Mercedes Lackey

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota -- the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.

— 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

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

Kerry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a roof tree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

— Mercedes Lackey