Closer to the Chest Quotes

“There was nothing we could do to stop whatever was going on, and there was no point in trying to imagine what was being done. I come from farm folk, Herald. We know when there’s nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you’re going to wish you’d had some.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“:I wish there was a plague that would target only stupid people,: he thought stormily. :Life would be so much easier for all the people that were left.:”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“We know when there’s nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you’re going to wish you’d had some.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“I would love to get my hands on whoever did this. But he already knew that he could administer all the punishment in the world, and it would have no effect, because the ones who had done this were stupid people, who had absolutely no doubt that they were in the right. No matter what they were told, no matter how many times they got caught and punished, they would go straight out and do it again. They knew they were right, and nothing would shake that faith.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“Stupid people never doubted themselves. Intelligent ones, however, went straight to self-examination whenever anything bad happened. Did I deserve this? Did I bring it on myself? Did I somehow do something that I shouldn’t have?”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“One problem at a time, that was his motto. Too bad he never got to live up to it.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest

“when there’s nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you’re going to wish you’d had some.” As”
― Mercedes Lackey, Closer to the Chest