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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dbdae8f | What if I cannot keep ye safe?... You and the rest of them? I shall try wi all my strength, Sassenach, and I dinna mind if I die doing it but what i should die too soon - and fail? "You won't." "'ll try not." "If I die dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e8a1761 | I married a lady and she became a whore. I cannot complain if it should be the other way about this time." "You think I'm a whore, do you?" She wasn't sure whether to be amused or insulted. Perhaps both. "Do you normally sleep with your victims, madam?" "I wasn't asleep, Your Grace, and if you had been, I think I would have noticed. (A Fugitive Green)" -- | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 71e51fb | Roger Wakefield: esta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa timida. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 0976aba | whom | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7898cb6 | The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie's cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse's hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his hips, looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, "No." | jamie-fraser standoff | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 69239ee | Does it ever stop? The wanting you? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e86f8c1 | I've thought that perhaps that's why women are so often sad, once the child's born," she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. "Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they're born, and they're different--not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o' course, and get to know them the way they are ... but still, there's the though.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 335b914 | I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday; not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. I said, "Lord, if I've ever had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough and not fall to my knees and beg her to stay." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e7baef9 | respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior, | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5d3bdc4 | I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconsciousness knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought. In older, more primitive times, it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple slee.. | outlander trust truth | Diana Gabaldon | |
| e00e7e0 | Eger Zaman biraz olsun Tanri'ya benzeyen bir seyse, o halde Hafiza'nin Seytan olmasi gerektigini dusunuyorum. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| bd02961 | sangfroid | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f7c21ca | JAMES ALEXANDER MALCOLM MACKENZIE FRASER,' " she read aloud. "Yes, I know him." Her hand dropped lower, brushing back the grass that grew thickly about the stone, obscuring the line of smaller letters at its base." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 91897db | In that case, maybe we shouldn't be disturbing you," said a soft American voice. "Oh, I forgot," said Claire, half-turning to the girl who had stood out of sight in the corner of the porch. "Roger Wakefield--my daughter, Brianna." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| b73e9b5 | Hell was full of clocks, he was sure of it. There was no torment, after all, that could not be exacerbated by a contemplation of time passing. The large case clock at the end of the corridor had a particularly penetrating tick-tock, audiable above and through all the noises of the house. It seemed to Lord John Grey to echo his own heartbeats, each one a step on the road towards death. | death heartbeat hell lord-john time | Diana Gabaldon | |
| c937557 | Jamie was real, alright, more real than anything had ever been to me, even Frank and my life in 1945. Jamie, tender lover and perfidious blackguard. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e633fd3 | And here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 4486037 | The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| dd270f5 | He said, 'If you're sizable, half the men ye meet will fear ye, and the other half will want to try ye. Knock one down,' he said, 'and the rest will let ye be. But learn to do it fast and clean, or you'll be fightin' all your life. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 67c0f3b | James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 1dda0ce | Go down," she said, "and tell them the MacKenzies are here." -- | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6a24a72 | I didn't answer, occupied in dissolving the penicillin tablets in the vial of sterile water. I selected a glass barrel, fitted a needle, and pressed the tip through the rubber covering the mouth of the bottle. Holding it up to the light, I pulled back slowly on the plunger, watching the thick white liquid fill the barrel, checking for bubbles. Then pulling the needle free, I depressed the plunger slightly until a drop of liquid pearled from.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 9dd0513 | Which one are you sleeping with, the baron or his sister?" Percy looked amused. "Both, on occasion." "Together?" The smile widened. His teeth were still good, Grey saw, though somewhat stained by wine. "Occasionally. Though Cecile--my wife--really prefers the attentions of her cousin Lucianne, and I myself prefer the attentions of the sub-gardener. Lovely man named Emile; he reminds me of you ... in your younger years. Slender, blond, muscu.. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 5aee9a4 | What if, this time, you fall? | prologue | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 479f3a9 | You are a rather remarkable woman," he said at last, in a level tone. "Indeed," I said, not looking up. "In what way?" He leaned back; I heard the rustle of his bedding. "You are neither circumspect nor circuitous. In fact, I don't believe I have ever met anyone more devastatingly straightforward--male or female." "Well, it's not by choice," I said. I came to the end of the thread and tucked it neatly into the ball. "I was born that way." ".. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| d60f0fc | For I give ye my spirit, 'til our life shall be done. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e41a1b8 | I had come to the conclusion - based on experience - that the only real way of learning to write a novel was probably to write a novel. | on-writing writing | Diana Gabaldon | |
| d68866d | Brianna olhou para seu relogio, ainda surpresa em ve-lo ali. Ainda faltava meia hora. Se pudessem evitar derramamento de sangue ate... Um grito lancinante vindo de cima e ela fez uma careta. A ajudante, menos preparada, deixou cair sua prancheta de anotacoes com um gritinho. - MAMAE! - Jem, em tom de queixa. - O QUE FOI? - ela rugiu em resposta. - Estou OCUPADA! -Mas mamae! Mandy me BATEU! -veio o relato indignado do alto da escada. Erguend.. | brianna-fraser-mackenzie diana-gabaldon jem-mackenzie | Diana Gabaldon | |
| cd0e2ad | We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare...! | Katherine Neville | ||
| 6e6d64d | But Mathematics are music,' Bach replied. And the reverse is also true. Whether you believe the word 'music' came from 'Musa,' the Muses, or from 'muta,'...it makes no difference. If you think 'mathematics' came from 'mathanein,' which is learning, or from 'Matrix," the womb or mother of all creation, it matters not..." | Katherine Neville | ||
| 6c08d8a | Sevgili Courtiade," dedi. "Ihanet yalnizca bir tarih meselesidir." | Katherine Neville | ||
| 12f7559 | Deep concentration has the effect of slowing down the thought process and speeding up the awareness viewing it. The result is the enhanced ability to examine the thought process. Concentration is our microscope for viewing subtle internal states. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 38798d1 | In the same way, morality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior. The | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a76ca7c | Vipassana meditation is a process by which that concept is dissolved. Little by little, you chip away at it, just by observing it. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| aa020b7 | sizable number of students seems to feel that a person should be completely moral before beginning to meditate. It is an unworkable strategy. Morality requires a certain degree of mental control as a prerequisite. You can't follow any set of moral precepts without at least a little self-control, and if your mind is perpetually spinning like a fruit cylinder in a slot machine, self-control is highly unlikely. So mental culture has to come fi.. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 33bad4d | The meditation technique called vipassana (insight) that was introduced by the Buddha about twenty-five centuries ago is a set of mental activities specifically aimed at experiencing a state of uninterrupted mindfulness. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a55b530 | Distractions are really paper tigers. They have no power of their own. They need to be fed constantly, or else they die. If you refuse to feed them by your own fear, anger, and greed, they fade. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| d573d9a | Building concentration is primarily a matter of removing certain mental factors that hinder its application. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| c3f1c03 | Concentration should be regarded as a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for good or for ill. A sharp knife can be used to create a beautiful carving or to harm someone. It is all up to the one who uses the knife. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 355dfcf | Essentially, insight meditation is a practice of investigative personal discovery. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 5d35cea | The reason we are all stuck in life's mud is that we ceaselessly run from our problems and after our desires. Meditation provides us with a laboratory situation in which we can examine this syndrome and devise strategies for dealing with it. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f34ea2d | A liberated person will indeed be generous and benevolent, but not because she has been conditioned to be so. She will be so purely as a manifestation of her own basic nature, which is no longer inhibited by ego. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 6a03439 | Just because of the simple fact that you are human, you find yourself heir to an inherent unsatisfactoriness in life that simply will not go away. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| e5cb6c4 | Generally, the last hindrance to leave the mind is hatred. When it is gone, metta arises naturally. The void is filled with feelings of friendliness toward everyone. When you no longer push things away, you naturally feel close to everything. You feel positive toward everybody. Everybody is your friend. | Henepola Gunaratana |