"How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again."

-- Diana Gabaldon

#Eye Quotes #Blue Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Stage performing is a dying art form.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 22, 1999.
“What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?”
“Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.”
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.138
“Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life.”
“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”
“My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.”
“And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.”

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