Dragonsinger Quotes

“The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight:
I dare not be tear-blinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:
But my grief will never go.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“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

“Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
Of anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.

Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“The little queen all golden
Flew hissing at the sea.
To stop each wave
Her clutch to save
She ventured bravely.

As she attacked the sea in rage
A holderman came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky.

He stared at her in wonder
For often he'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold.

He saw her plight and quickly
He looked up the cliff he faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs he placed.

The little queen all golden
Upon his shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Necessity breeds solution.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“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

“It is the voice we communicate with, the voice which utters the words we seek to impress on men’s minds, the voice which evokes emotional response; tears, laughter, sense. Your voice is the most important, most complex, most amazing instrument of all.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“A gitar for Menolly? So we can judge the range of sounds she can make?”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again?”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“The fickle wind’s my foe, With tide his keen ally. They’re jealous of my sea’s love And rouse her with their lie. Oh sweet sea, oh dear sea, Heed not their stormy wile But bear me safely to my Hold And from their watery trial.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Your clothes are worn to the woof.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Your voice is sad and your hands are slow,
And your eye meeting mine turns away.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

“Oh, shell it, Ranly," Piemur suggested.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger