Magic's Pawn Quotes

“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?”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“[...] what the hell do I do about a broken lifebond?"

He shook his head, obviously at a loss. "I can't tell you; I don't know. I don't Heal minds, I Heal bodies. And I don't know of anyone who Heals hearts.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Better, I thought, not to touch at all than to touch and bring hurt upon myself and others. Better to do nothing than to make a move and have it be the wrong one. But even deciding to not touch or to be nothing is a decision, Vanyel, and by deciding not to touch, so as to avoid hurt, I then hurt those who tried to touch me.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“There is no shame in loving. (...) This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there. I give you these things as food for your heart and mind.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“I’m going to be just as nasty as you are—but I’m going to do it with more style.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“There are times when—when being alone is a hurt that’s worse than dying. When it’s easier to die than to be alone. Aren’t there?”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Gods, they make my skin crawl, all those—people, eating me alive with their eyes—”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“The pale stone of the keep echoed the sound of the exchange, a racket like a madman loose in a smithy.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“went”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“all three Bardic Talents: the Gift, the Skill, and the Creativity.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn

“Bir şeyleri dışarı atıp kapıyı kilitlediğinde, aslında kendini içeri kilitlemiş oluyorsun.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Magic's Pawn