Myra Beatrice

“After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“Outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.”
― Daniel J. Rice, THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel

“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”
― Anne McCaffrey, Lyon's Pride

“If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Ship Who Saved the Worlds