Gail > Gail's Quotes

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The saddest part of a broken heart
Isn't the ending so much as the start
The tragedy starts from the very first spark
Losing your mind for the sake of your heart”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Krondor: The Betrayal

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”
― Raymond E. Feist, The King's Buccaneer

“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”
― Raymond E. Feist

“Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.”
― Raymond E. Feist

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

“Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning

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

“In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead fish.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Silver Gryphon

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

“There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and 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, Brightly Burning

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“No, no. We can kill each other later.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Me? Die? Didn't they tell you, princess? I'm Robin Goodfellow.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“I was minding my own buisness long before you and the princess started humping like rabbits.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Once upon a time there was a girl."

"Not a princess?!"

"No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized."

"Does she live happily ever after?"

"Shouldn't there be something in the middle?"

"I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)”
― Melissa Marr

“What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“He looked good, like sin in a suit.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“You say potato; I say potahto...'

'I say integrity; you say deceit.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“Sometimes being human sucks.”
― Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity

“Like chaos in a glass cage.”
― Melissa Marr, Radiant Shadows

“Have you ever tried?'
'No.'
'Then don't tell me I can't.”
― Melissa Marr, Fragile Eternity

“If you get killed. I'm going to be furious."
"I love you too. Come On.”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy