Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above
A man ought not be afraid to say he didn’t know. Nor a woman.
Seed of a syphilitic she-camel,
You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn’s meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!
Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day
Queens can, too, fly, she blurted out, daring him. His grin broadening to suffuse his face, he put his hands on her shoulders and gave her an affectionate shake. Of course they can fly, he assured her...
Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one’s self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them
If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas
Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.
But she wouldn’t have been a Cat Person if she had not.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,
There wasn’t a man alive in Pern who hadn’t secretly cherished the notion that he might be able to Impress a dragon. That he could be linked for life to the love and sustaining admiration of these gen...
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...
The important things to remember she remembered, she told herself. The rest was chaff, which time would have winnowed out of active memory anyway.
Lessa lay in the straw of the redolent cheeseroom she shared as sleeping quarters with the other kitchen drudges.
In the twenty years since her first voyage, Fleet had not been able to assure the safety of the younger and more remote colonies; as well, planets cleared for colonization by one group were too often...
Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world, said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave...
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...