{"author":"Mercedes Lackey","author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["character-harrier","dragons","gossip","humor","jamese-mallory","location-6262","mercedes-lackey","page-344","the-phoenix-unchained"],"id":1815,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["humorous","relationships","unrequited-love"],"id":3103,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["advice","goats","humour"],"id":9069,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["perspective"],"id":12912,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["alone","lonliness","struggle"],"id":14297,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"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?","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["grief","grieving","life-lesson","lost-love","love"],"id":28977,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["gossip"],"id":29225,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"You have a long history,' he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. 'Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy.' Lanya glanced at the sky.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["character-harrier","character-lanya","elves","james-mallory","location-1558","mercedes-lackey","stories","the-phoenix-endangered","weather"],"id":40384,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["caligula","history","humor","latin"],"id":46025,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["chronic-illness","difficulty","illness","struggle"],"id":52601,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}