“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“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“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, Dragonflight“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, Dragonsinger“Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.”
Anne McCaffrey, Dragonseye“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, Dragonsong“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, Nerilka's Story“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, Nerilka's Story“Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect”
Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper“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, Nerilka's Story“Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth”
Anne McCaffrey, Dragon Harper