{"author":"Anne McCaffrey","author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["crying","release","relief","tears"],"id":5839,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["dragons"],"id":35535,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["words"],"id":51328,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["dragons","dreams"],"id":91174,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"Speak hard, steal the air.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["faerie-paranormal-romance","fantasy","inspirational","science-fiction","vampires","ya-adult"],"id":151034,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"If Jana had been given to putting her thoughts into words, she might have told Laxmi that without someone to love,there was no reason to live.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["child","life","love","philosophy"],"id":189250,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["book-ending","happiness","sorrow"],"id":194991,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["honor","word"],"id":242232,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["children","music"],"id":247552,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne McCaffrey","tags":["grief"],"id":253158,"author_id":"Anne+McCaffrey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}