All 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 GabaldonAnd I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.
Diana GabaldonI can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
Diana Gabaldon