Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.
At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'
You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I willna let ye go
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe.
......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.
People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.
I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time
Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.
I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.
He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.
If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie
Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.
Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up.
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect)
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie
I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual and helpful things.
Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more
Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.
...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?
I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.
I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.
I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.
I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.
It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.
I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'