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.

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

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy." Lanya glanced at the sky.

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.

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

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

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

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?