Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Cameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. Furthermore, I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

— Mercedes Lackey

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

— Mercedes Lackey

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

— Mercedes Lackey

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

— Mercedes Lackey

Only a very careless father would be inclined to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I suppose I'm about to act like the disreputable uncle who everyone fears to leave the boys with because he encourages them to drink distilled spirits, stay up late, and do more than merely kiss girls." "Uh... what?" Mags replied, utterly bewildered now." I am going," Baker said, leaning toward Mags, his eyes dancing with laughter, "to tell you how to please a woman." Max thought for a moment his face that caught fire, because surely it couldn't burn like that without some outside help.

— Mercedes Lackey

Per went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!

— Mercedes Lackey

Seth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

— Mercedes Lackey

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

— Mercedes Lackey

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

— Mercedes Lackey

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

— Mercedes Lackey