Quotes from Acorna: The Unicorn Girl

Anne McCaffrey ·  400 pages

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“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



About the author

Anne McCaffrey
Born place: in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
Born date April 1, 1926
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