Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!

Meli, are you sure these humans are on our side?) (No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.) (That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.) (That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?)

You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

When is a legend legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and discussed must a fact be for it to be relegated to the category Fairy-tale? And why do certain facts remain incontrovertible while others lose their validity to assume a shabby, unstable character?

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?

A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.

Don't store guilt for future use. Afra

And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.

Has been done. Can be done. Must be done...

It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

It's easier to flatter a man than fight him.

Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world, said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave her a good view of his anxious, pointed little face.

People don't change, love. React first, think later, regret at leisure.

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

Time, time, time. It's always the wrong time. When is now the time?

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.

When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away?

The eyes of a vengeful man miss few details he can turn to advantage.