Anne Mccaffrey Quotes

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

speak hard, steal the air.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day

~ Anne Mccaffrey

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above

~ Anne Mccaffrey

The tears I feel todayI'll wait to shed tomorrow.Though I'll not sleep this nightNor find surcease from sorrow.My eyes must keep their sight:I dare not be tear-blinded.I must be free to talkNot choked with grief, clear-minded.My mouth cannot betrayThe anguish that I know.Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:But my grief will never go.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you’re lucky a good man took you away from all that.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

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.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth

~ 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.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.”~ A thought by Lessa ~

~ Anne Mccaffrey

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.

~ Anne Mccaffrey