Valdemar Quotes

“When”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Well, yes.” He sighed. “But our Companions will at least tell us what is going on. So we have that much going for us.” :Why yes, I will. I thought you’d never ask.: He rolled his eyes, and she caught it. “What?” she asked. “I have a Companion with a somewhat sarcastic vein.” :It’s not a vein. It’s an entire mine. Nice of you to notice.:”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Worrying again. Worrying always, Isla would say,” he responded. Hakkon was an adept pupil when he chose, and his uncle had deemed him both suitably educated and suitably chastised to be released back to his normal studies and duties. But he was spending time every day with his new puppy and the Houndmaster, as much time as Restil and Delia had spent with their first Valdemar Golds, so Kordas was pleased with the results of the corrective discipline. “I know how to make you smile!” Hakkon declared. “Come see my puppy when we’re done!”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Kordas reflected that in the eyes of some, these would be halcyon days indeed. Imagine having no poor! Even in the Duchy, there had been poor. I’ll enjoy this while it lasts. Because people would always be greedy, the strong would always take from the weak, and there was only so much even a King could do about that. Only a fool would think otherwise. All I can do is my best. And that goes for Restil; at least we’ve brought him up well. But when the rot set in, as it inevitably would, would it penetrate as far as the now—royal family?”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“We care deeply for the creatures that depend on us, expecting nothing, really, and getting so very much from them. Loving them takes courage, because love requires daring. Daring to risk the pain of loss--and accepting that they will only ever be temporary in our lives. Mourning them when they are gone speaks of our bond with them, and our willingness to give loss its due--by feeling it fully, then recovering wisely. Our animals make us better people. We do not abuse our strength, and we do not deny our empathy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“....knowing that losing a beloved pet was just as hard as losing a member of your family. Maybe harder, because everything with a pet was wordless. You never really knew if they understood what you meant all the times that you told them you loved them. THEIR love was openly (if sometimes oddly) displayed. And they left you far too soon...It hurt, and it never got easier.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“The world is short-sighted, savage, merciless, unless we choose to act in mercy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“The brighter, compassionate things take hard work, but evil somehow always manages to make itself easy. Neglect is easy. Indifference. It's too easy to turn into a monster.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“:If you will have me, I Choose you to share my destiny with. For Valdemar.:”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Three of the most gorgeous horses he had ever seen in his life stood in the middle of the clearing. Silver-white, silver-hooved, blue-eyed, they were incandescent with magical and spiritual power, and he found himself stepping forward, hand outstretched, longing to touch the arch of the middle one’s neck, and aghast at his own presumption.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Being able to read, freely, to read anything, is the first thing a tyrant suppresses. The enemy of a tyrant is rational, informed thinking, and the ignorant make the best slaves,”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“Sydney-You-Asshole the cat was . . . well, not like a dog. Cats do not “do” unconditional love.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“if you had plans for people’s long-term health, it told the people that they had a future.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar

“For a ruler, the practice of poetry enhances the ability to evaluate whatever presents itself, in a brisk manner, with the faculty of subtle analytic skills in constant practice. These skills are as follows”
― Mercedes Lackey, Valdemar