Robin Hillman

“Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.”
― 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

“Why do we grow up thinking life should be fair? Who told us that it should be? Because it never is, and finding that out . . . hurts worse than a lie.”
― Mercedes Lackey, A Host of Furious Fancies

“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only moral fiction of the modern world--because in a mystery, you were guaranteed to see that the bad got punished, the good got rewarded and in the end all was made right.

I'd like to think that fantasy does the same thing. It reminds us that this is how it should be, and maybe if we all put our minds to it a little more, this is how it will be. The good will be rewarded. The bad will be punished. Sins will be forgiven.

And they will live happily ever after.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Snow Queen