I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.