The Ship Who Sang Quotes

“Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Don’t wait for the impossible! Engineer it.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“You needed a goal, or there was no point to anything.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Ansra drifted languidly into the main cabin and the atmosphere changed so abruptly that Helva inadvertently scanned her warnings system.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Helva was revolted and enraged by such depravity”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Think of it! Thousands more to die to expiate the sin against Him Who Orders.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“A truly cheerless place,” Kira said, making a face. “Well, with only 15,000, we can’t have to stay long.” She strummed a gay tune to counteract the morbid pictures.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Religious hierarchy powerful, so do not antagonize. Repeat, do not antagonize. And report soonest.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Thus, given a lack, say, in a generation of a particularly desirable ethnic group, sufficient additional embryos could be released to restore the ecological balance.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“The airborne disease spores struck animal as well as human,”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Since many of the colonists were religious fanatics who had settled on rigorous Chloe to fit themselves for a life of pious reflection, Chloe’s abrupt thaw was attributed to sources other than a rampaging sun.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“If the authorities remarked on her curious avocation, they did so among themselves. Shell-people were encouraged to develop a hobby so long as they maintained proficiency in their technical work.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“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.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“It became a requirement of those in hazardous professions, or those with highly desirable dominant characteristics of intelligence or physical perfection, to donate sperm and ova to what became known as the Race Conservation Agency.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“anent”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“malodorous.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang

“Ophiuchus”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang