To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.--Shin'a'in saying

— Mercedes Lackey

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

— Mercedes Lackey

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

— Mercedes Lackey

Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Family) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.

— Mercedes Lackey

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time-serving.

— Mercedes Lackey

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

— Mercedes Lackey

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

— Mercedes Lackey

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

— Mercedes Lackey

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!

— 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 harms none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.

— Mercedes Lackey