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…

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

In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space.

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

It is essential that America's word be good.

I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.