Diane > Diane's Quotes

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Love comes into the body like lightning - without fear. The spirit opens laughing. Love comes without hesitation. It comes with roses and knives. Love does not knock on the door, it burns it and throws all your walls into the fire. -Rune Lazuli”
― Macy Blake, All or Nothing

“I actually don't believe that the Administration wants war, but I also think they are all tactics and no strategy. Plan seems to be escalation with no endgame, and no understanding of how Iranian psychology actually works.”
― Chris Murphy

“A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.”
― Edith Pargeter, A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury

“Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
― Mercedes Lackey

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)”
― Mercedes Lackey, Owlknight

“It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Elvenborn

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

“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon

“Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him...even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven...Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Wizard of London

“Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.”
― Mercedes Lackey, By the Sword

“One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Alta

“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me. ”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Fire Rose

“Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Alta

“First commandment: there ain't no such thing as "one true way" and the way you find is only good for you, not anybody else, because your interpretation of what you see and feel and understand as the truth is never going to be the same as anyone else's.
Second commandment: the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself.
Third commandment: leave the world better than you found it.
Fourth commandment: if it isn't true, going to do some good, or spread a little love around, don't say it, do it, or think it.
Fifth commandment: there are only three things worth living for; love in all it's manifestations, freedom, and the chance to keep humanity going a little while longer. They're the same things worth 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.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Burning Water

“Established religion is like established anything else. It's easy. It offers answers you can get prepackaged and predigested, right off the shelf, and the same for everybody. No thinking required, much less hard thinking. Like a board game--you follow the rules, you go to heaven. That's why established religion gets the assholes. They aren't "good" Christians. I rather doubt they ever gave up a thing they valued for any reason or anybody. People like that aren't good anything. What they believe, they believe because it's appropriate; it's what everybody believes because it's the right thing to do--in short, it's easy. Our way isn't easy. We get assholes too, but they usually give up and get out, or get it knocked out of them.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Burning Water

“Three things trust and cherish well-
The horse on which you ride,
The beast that guards and watches,
And your shield-mate at your side.”
― Mercedes Lackey, By the Sword

“All I knew was that, like a kaleidoscope coming into focus, I was seeing Mal in a new light—one as beautiful as it was broken. The watchful, wounded patterns of his behavior, the shifting fractals of his words—all his jagged pieces added up to something gorgeous. But it had to hurt, walking through the world that way. Carrying all those sharp edges inside himself.”
― spencer spears

“I pulled him tighter as I lay back down. I had no idea where we went from here. No fucking clue what happened tomorrow. But for tonight, Adam was in my arms. And everything was okay.”
― Spencer Spears, Adam's Song

“How come you get to give advice when you never date anyone?” “Because I live vicariously through you and yearn only for your happiness? Your dreams are my dreams, my only wish. So go hang out with the stupid guy already.”
― Spencer Spears, Sugar Season

“kidnapped”
― Spencer Spears, Sea Kissed