You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.

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

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases