Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)

Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for one night. And they do say that abstinence makes the heart grow firmer, no?" "Absence," I said, dodging the spoon for a moment. "AND fonder. If anything's growing firmer from abstinence, it wouldn't be his heart.