“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“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!”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“When the tiger executes a merger with the goat, which one walks away?”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you’re lucky a good man took you away from all that.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
“Was it only because he happened to be the one who came along when he did? Could it have been anyone? Or was there something about him, that I liked and cared at?”
― Sara Zarr, quote from Story of a Girl
“Shocked, the teacher rushed out and brought back the headmistress. Throughout the rest of the period, both of them tried to figure out who set off the bomb and gave us lectures on our rowdy behaviour.”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from What Young India Wants
“She said that if you hold on to hate, you lose your grip on so much more.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Caught
“They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone. " "And yet, I connect them." "You do.”
― Meredith T. Taylor, quote from Churning Waters (Churning Waters Saga)
“I just wanted you to know that it’s not you. It’s me. It’s all me, and if I push you away it’s because I don’t know how to pull you close. I’m not . . . I’m not good with people.”
― Jessica Clare, quote from Beauty and the Billionaire
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