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 it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.

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

The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

I have only one question, my sister and my friend,_ she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply into the shadowed eyes that met hers. __nd that is this; which way do you want them sliced__engthwise, or widthwise?

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It__ the living we fear.

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

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

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

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

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

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.

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

Van, Van, we__e only simple, fallible mortals - we aren__ saints, we aren__ angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

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