She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

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