Acorna's Quest Quotes

“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.”
― Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball, Acorna's Quest

“A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“(Meli, are you sure these "humans" are on our side?)

(No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.)

(That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.)

(That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?)”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“I like opera just fine; it’s people I wanted to get away from.” As”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

“chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system’s resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest