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1 " There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty. "
― Anne McCaffrey , Dragonsinger (Harper Hall, #2)
2 " 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 with grief, clear-minded.My mouth cannot betrayThe anguish that I know.Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:But my grief will never go. "
3 " Necessity breeds solution. "
4 " There’s something wrong in not appreciating one’s own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don’t limit yourself with false modesty. "
5 " It is the voice we communicate with, the voice which utters the words we seek to impress on men’s minds, the voice which evokes emotional response; tears, laughter, sense. Your voice is the most important, most complex, most amazing instrument of all. "
6 " Don't leave me alone!A cry in the night,Of anguish heart-stiking,Of soul-killing fright.Live for my livingOr else I must dieDon't leave me alone.A world heard that cry. "
7 " The little queen all goldenFlew hissing at the sea.To stop each waveHer clutch to saveShe ventured bravely.As she attacked the sea in rageA holderman came nighAlong the sandFishnet in handAnd saw the queen midsky.He stared at her in wonderFor often he'd been toldThat such as sheCould never beWho hovered there, bright gold.He saw her plight and quicklyHe looked up the cliff he facedAnd saw a caveAbove the waveIn which her eggs he placed.The little queen all goldenUpon his shoulder stoodHer eyes all blueGlowed of her trueUndying gratitude. "
8 " The mind that will not admit it has something more to learn tomorrow is in danger of stagnating. "
9 " He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come. "
10 " A gitar for Menolly? So we can judge the range of sounds she can make? "
11 " Oh, shell it, Ranly," Piemur suggested. "
12 " Your voice is sad and your hands are slow,And your eye meeting mine turns away. "
13 " Your clothes are worn to the woof. "
14 " Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again? "