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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 649589a | Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. "The grave's a fine and private place/But none, I think, do there embrace." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ba2a55b | You are my baby, and always will be. You won't know what that means until you have a child of your own, but I tell you now, anyway--you'll always be as much a part of me as when you shared my body and I felt you move inside. Always. I can look at you, asleep, and think of all the nights I tucked you in, coming in the dark to listen to your breathing, lay my hand on you and feel your chest rise and fall, knowing that no matter what happens, .. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a359bdd | It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do--but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7dd53c8 | Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "--but far more dangerous." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 729f7d4 | Tu esti curajul meu, asa cum eu sunt constiinta ta, mi-a soptit. Tu esti inima mea, iar eu, compasiunea ta. Singuri, nu suntem intregi. Nu stiai asta, englezoaico? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fc391a8 | He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh. | clairefraser fierycross jamiefraser love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 6bcb533 | I said I was a virgin, not a monk," he said, kissing me again. "If I find I need guidance, I'll ask." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1281c50 | of Jamie. God, how could I do it? Leave him | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cea9838 | I'm none so brave as I was before, ken?" he said very softly. "Not brave enough to live without ye anymore." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7ba70a3 | Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ad40406 | When a slave must be executed, the slaves from those plantations nearby are brought to watch; a deterrent, aye? against future ill-considered action." "Indeed," Jamie said politely. "I believe that was the Crown's notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since." I had lived long enough among Scots to appreciate the effects of that little jab. Jamie m.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b44dc36 | He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself. "And you are a fanciful idiot," he said outloud." | snow stars winter | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 37676c3 | Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy. | wry-humor | Diana Gabaldon | |
| d40ab11 | A man should pay tribute to your body," he said softly... "For you are beautiful, and that is your right." | outlander voyager | Diana Gabaldon | |
| ad4c4ba | The dark came down on All Hallows' Eve. We went to sleep to the sound of howling wind and pelting rain, and woke on the Feast of All Saints to whiteness and large soft flakes falling down and down in absolute silence. There is no more perfect stillness than the solitude in the heart of a snowstorm. This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery. The sk.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 57a0a53 | I have lived through a fucking world war," I said, my voice low and venomous. "I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betrayed, imprisoned, and attacked. And I have fucking survived!" My voice was rising, but I was helpless to stop it. "And now should I be shattered because some wretched, pathetic excuses for men stuck their nasty little appendages between my leg.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| eeff490 | Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f8b68e4 | All over the clearing, the same thing was happening; the women gave not an inch, but their men stepped out before them. Anyone coming into the clearing would think that the women had melted into invisibility, leaving an implacable phalanx of Scotsmen staring down the glen. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| a225f13 | 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." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0afe6c8 | I have yearned always," he said softly, "for love given and returned; have spent my life in the attempt to give my love to those who were not worthy of it. Allow me this: to give my life for the sake of one who is." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6179a6e | A party at which the guests are all of the beautiful persuasion tends to be dull indeed, as they have no conversation that does not pertain to themselves. A successful gathering requires a number of the ill-favored but clever. The beautiful are but ornaments--desirable, but dispensable. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d7666f9 | 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" -- | diana-gabaldon highlands historical-romance jamiefraser outlander sassenach scotland | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 3b2577f | But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 13ff9da | Frank made a face; an Englishman to the bone, he would rather lap water out of the toilet than drink tea made from teabags. The Lipton's had been left by Mrs. Grossman, the weekly cleaning woman, who thought tea made from loose leaves messy and disgusting. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 81892d6 | Nothing is lost ... only changed. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 065e541 | Then a far more grotesque and insulting marriage was arranged between the twenty-year-old John Woodville and Katherine Neville, Warwick's aunt and the dowager duchess of Norfolk. Katherine was not only a four-time widow but also about sixty-five years old. | Dan Jones | ||
| fca32f0 | A sense of failure is only another ephemeral emotional reaction. If you get involved, it feeds on your energy and grows. If you simply stand aside and watch it, it passes away. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a703a18 | You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option. You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion. You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 285b2c3 | Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. You may not be perfect, but you are all you've got to work with. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 36a3f30 | Advanced meditators are generally found to be pretty jovial people. They possess one of the most valuable of all human treasures, a sense of humor. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 720895e | Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. | Bhante Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f58ed87 | What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now. The consequences of an evil mind will follow you like the cart follows the ox that pulls it. The consequences of a purified mind will follow you like your own shadow. No one can do more for you than your own purified mind--no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| d042e6a | The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded -- just in case -- for Jesus may have said something about brothers, but he made no mention of cousins. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 59e2c1c | Tambien esta es la historia de mi vida, penso, o parte de ella: buscar un taxi de madrugada, oliendo a mujer o a noche perdida, sin que una cosa contradiga la otra. | melancolia vida | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 9f0b51b | E agora tinha a certeza de uma coisa vislumbrada ao principio (...) que nao ha dois livros iguais porque nunca houve dois leitores iguais. E que cada livro lido e, como cada ser humano, um livro singular, uma historia unica e um mundo a parte. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 3ccf858 | conocia de sobra... los motivos simples por los que un hombre con las dosis adecuadas de fanatismo, rencor o animo de lucro mercenario podia matar indiscriminadamente. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 229a4ab | Con rusos y con mujeres nunca se sabe. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 02a1e31 | Nachin't, po koito niakoi khora pipat knigi, e napravo prest'pen. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 2b873d8 | Y es verdad que cualquier detalle puede cambiar la vida: un camino que se toma, por ejemplo, o que se tarda en tomar a causa de una conversacion, de un cigarrillo, de un recuerdo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 81e1985 | Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which human imperfection could aspire. His whole life lay before him, smooth, broad, and definitive, as untroubled by uncertainty as a river flowing to the sea. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 9966fa7 | I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 95d5e17 | Truth is in things, not in people, he remembered. But it needs us to be manifest. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 6cf348b | Durerea, isi da seama Max, atinge mai devreme sau mai tarziu un grad de saturatie, dupa care intensitatea nu mai are importanta. De la un anumit punct incolo, nu mai conteaza daca sunt douazeci sau patruzeci de lovituri. Si de-atunci nu mai doare fiecare noua lovitura, ci pauza dintre una si cealalta. Deoarece chinul cel mai greu de suportat nu il reprezinta bataia, ci momentele cand calaul se intrerupe ca sa-si traga sufletul. Atunci carne.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| ebf86d4 | You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |