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

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

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.

Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.

to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract

As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author.

The Flinstones wore furs, they ate red meat, and had a stoneage philosophy. In fact, they were the first Republicans.

I don't think we're wasting people in space.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.