Quotes from book

Dragonfly in Amber

“But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple.

"And, Sassenach," he whispered, "your face is my heart.”

“There aren't any answers, only choices”

“We are bound, you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you.”

“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”

“Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.”

“D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

“You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything whatever, so long as both shall live.”

“Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”

“… 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.”

“Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.”

“For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

“Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.”

“I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.”

“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”

“Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.”

“I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. “Aye, mo duinne. But you’re my sassenach.”

“Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.”

“You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.”

“You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your revenge for it, then take it and welcome, for my soul is yours, in all the black corners of it.”