Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.

Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.

He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

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

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie