And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
Diana GabaldonBoldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
Diana GabaldonThat's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
Diana GabaldonHe [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.
Diana GabaldonSo remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
Diana GabaldonMy father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser
Diana GabaldonTag: parenting discipline spanking
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
Diana GabaldonI felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.
Diana GabaldonLook back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone.
All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Each ghost comes unbidden from the misty grounds of dream and silence.
Our rational minds say, "No, it isn't."
But another part, an older part, echoes always softly in the dark, "Yes, but it could be.
Tag: jamie-fraser outlander
Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.
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