Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Ritchie Lackeyis an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels form a complex tapestry of interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 June 1950
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two voice somewhere-under
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones
dark waste traps
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
dream dog secret
Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.
fantasy horror written
... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
way used blinders
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
pain healing space
Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.
glasses woods break
Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.
warrior forgotten forgetful
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
rocks priorities strange
It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.
technology magic tools
Magic, like technology, is a tool.
lasts mud said
Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered.
race dying answers
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.
dog forever three
In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever.
mets nevertheless knows
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.