Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

Your voice is sad and your hands are slow, And your eye meeting mine turns away.

Your clothes are worn to the woof.

Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again?

Killashandra steeled herself for yet another protocologically correct reception.

I had the added assurance of knowing I was buffered against catching the disease that I nursed, so sometimes Macabir's praise of my courage on this count embarrassed me. Then a journeyman healer walked boldly into the camp bearing sufficient serum to inoculate everyone.

How old is too old when you've a right knack with the sick?

Then enter a program that gets me out of this wretched asshole of a midden system.

La experiencia real es el conocimiento

Living was struggling to do something impossible—to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!

She had had to learn that, although it was her nature to seethe, she must seethe discreetly. Unlike the average Pernese, dragonriders were apt to perceive strong emotional auras.

She sorted out the young men. Tanner's opportunism amused but did not specifically attract her; the blond Nordsen seemed too simple; dark-haired Al-atpay had a kind of obstinacy with which she felt no compassion: Mir-Ahnin's bitterness hinted an inner darkness she did not wish to lighten, although he made the biggest outward play for her attention.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.

A man convinced against his will, is of his own opinion still,'

what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time.

A short, chesty man with a round face wreathed in an expression of constant, surprised good humor, waved cheerily to her.

One renegade can discredit a hundred honest injuns.

None of my family is good at being patient. It's why we all become doctors.

Ease after war, death after life does greatly please'?

The AI told her not long ago that her Why? period might have been the shortest on record - because Mum and Dad answered every Why? in detail AND made sure she understood, so she wouldn't ask that particular Why? again. After a month Why? wasn't fun anymore, and she went on to other things.

Everyone wants to be, in some way, unique, and can't realize that being unique is a responsibility as well as a privilege. You can't cure that. How

What I know I wish I didn't. What I'd give anything to know, I have to wait and see.

I like opera just fine; it's people I wanted to get away from." As

fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those…

In the twenty years since her first voyage, Fleet had not been able to assure the safety of the younger and more remote colonies; as well, planets cleared for colonization by one group were too often found to have someone else—legally now the owners—in place when the colonists