Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Your face is my heart

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

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

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