Exile's Honor Quotes

“Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace. ”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“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.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Answers are terribly seductive. The simpler they are, the more seductive they become.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Platitudes might satisfy for a short time, father—but soon or late, the people will realize they are being fed form without substance. What I tell them must be the truth, and I must believe it, and I must hold to it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Other men might deride farmers-turned-soldiers. Not he. Farmers knew what they were fighting for; farmers were used to death and killing, for they did it every autumn when they killed the cattle and swine that would feed them through the winter. The average citydweller might never see meat that was not already rendered into its component parts; the farmer had raised that “meat” from a baby, and had resisted his children’s efforts to name it and make a pet of it.

Killing a cow was easier than killing a man? Not when the farmer had delivered the cow as a calf, had agonized over its illnesses, had called it to its food every day for all of its life, brought it all unaware into the killing shed, and stared into its eyes before killing it. Whereas the man he faced was a stranger, was hidden in his helm, and wanted to kill him. Then wanted to take his land, his goods, and his women. A farmer would have no difficulty in making the decision to kill a man.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“We know that Valdemar is not the land—and it is not just the people. Valdemar is a spirit, a community of spirit that binds a hundred disparate peoples with a hundred different religions and ways of life into a company and a greater whole. It is not a unity, for that would be denying our diversity, and in our diversity and our tolerance is our strength.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“man’s home is where his family is, Herald Alberich. And also, that friends are the family one can choose. . . .”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“It is not a unity, for that would be denying our diversity, and in our diversity and our tolerance is our strength.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Justice isn’t just laws, it’s people.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Genius will only take you to ‘good.’ Practice will take you to ‘Master.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“The problem with that assumption is that once a man of honor sees what his leaders are doing is wrong, shouldn’t it be incumbent on him to do something about it?” Talamir asked the princess, who made a little grimace of impatience. “With the sorts of things that the Sunpriests have been doing, even the most devout worshiper of Vkandis is going to run out of excuses for their excesses.” “What if he can’t?” she asked. “Do something about it, I mean.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor