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…

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.

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

My love for you is passionate and strong.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Live to fight on other days.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.