At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the darkness.

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

Come with me and take back your lives!

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

Treat your body like you would treat a friend.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?