Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

Here are the contexts of the quotes tweeted from @sueannbowling from September 12 through September 18, 2013. All but the last are from The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.

“We came because that was what we’d done, had to do, did. M’Rand, quoting the old Question Song as he prepares to step down.

“It was the set of their minds: their self-appointed mission to deny choice to others.” Tagetarl’s thoughts on how the Abominators differed from others.

“Not everything and anything new meant an improvement.” Tagetarl remembering something Menolly had said—but he goes on to say that people must make their own choices as to what to accept.

“It never occurred to him that he had only himself to blame.” Toric, stuck in a meeting about the new observatories. I’ve often wondered what Anne McCaffrey intended to do about Toric, who by this point is rather obviously going to have to be dealt with.

“Such people are afraid of what they don’t understand, won’t understand.” F’lar talking to Lessa about the problem of the Abominators.

“Practice, I believe, always improves performance.” Lytol, after F’lessan says that he hopes to be able to make a more graceful landing in the future.

“I believe” shades into “I know.” Homecoming, Sue Ann Bowling. Lai, explaining why he is not against religion (and has his own) but is doubtful of dogma.

P.S. I think summer’s over, regardless of the calendar. This is what I woke up to this morning.

I’d better get the plastic off the herbs today.

But I’ll need help to get the moose barrier up around the maple.

Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

Here are the contexts of the quotes tweeted from @sueannbowling between August 1 and August 7, 2013. All but the last are from The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.

“We will try to defuse rumor with fact.” Sebol, faced with trying to explain the tsunami.

“Since when has the middle of the night been free of trouble!” Idolaran, when the group sent to warn Toric is challenged.

“We did what we could.” F’lessan to Tai, as both are exhausted after rescuing people from the tsunami.

“You couldn’t sell something that had been in the family so long.” The thoughts of Chesmic, stationmaster at Circle Runner Station, about the meteor that had produced the circular crater for which the station was named.

“Too hidebound to know the color of her pelt.” Pinch’s opinion of the woman Abominator called “Fourth.”

“We all have a choice.” A bit of Pinch’s philosophy.

“Maybe they couldn’t compete with the peccaries.” Tourist Trap, by Sue Ann Bowling. Penny, when Roi wonders why there are no black bears on Falaron. (The peccaries are flat-headed peccaries, extinct on Earth, but filling the same niche as black bears on our planet during the Pleistocene.)

Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

The first six quotes are from The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.

“We cannot change minds and attitudes overnight.” Lord Groghe, after the first attack on the Healers and Glassmakers.

“The benefits of technology are often ambivalent.” F’lar, discussing the attacks and possible reasons.

“We know the problem; it’s the solution that eludes us.” Seball’s reply to Groghe’s statement that the younger generation doesn’t want to work for anything.

“Some will never understand.” Jaxsom, commenting on the fact that few seem to understand what the dragonriders did to eliminate thread as a future problem.

“Those are happy to believe easy lies rather than complicated truths.” Jaxson again, commenting on the tendency of those with poor education to be easily misled.

“Boats are replaceable. Lives are not.” T’gelllen to the dragonriders sent out to rescue people of a fishing village from a tidal wave.

“You don’t go asking guests for favors.” Bowling, Horse Power. Timi to his children when they hope to get Roi to Heal a broken-winged bird.

Quotes from Anne McCaffrey

These are the contexts of the quotes tweeted between May 9 and May 15.

“I know it is not the truth, and I say so.” The Dolphins of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Master Fandarel is contradicting rumors he knows are not true, that the dragonleaders are dragging their heels about settling the Southern Continent.

“We intend to talk to you or at you or at you, but you would be wise to pay attention.” The Dolphins of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Larad, speaking for the Lords when they confront Toric.

“I sing the songs of old so that the young do not forget the past.” The Dolphins of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.  The Tillek (Head of the dolphins) in response to Seball (Masterharper) saying she has much the same position as he has.

“When your Master calls, you go.” The Dolphins of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey.  Readis’s new master and teacher is the Tillek, and she has just called him to join her.

“Stars did not change their courses.” The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey. Shankolin, one of the conspirators against AIVAS, rehearsing to himself what his father taught him.

“He had a duty to perform, a wrong to right, and a theory he must confirm or forget. The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey Shankolin again, justifying the terrorism he is planning.

“Maybe I can do something about it when I’m older, but not alone. Tourist Trap, Sue Ann Bowling. Roi dislikes more than one thing about the Confederation, but he knows no one will listen to someone as young as he is.