I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
Diana GabaldonNo wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
Diana GabaldonWhen I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.
Diana GabaldonAll I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.
Diana GabaldonI will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
Diana Gabaldon