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Book by Diana Gabaldon · 14 quotes · Jamie Fraser, Daddy Issues, Standoff

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“When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind. It was because I couldn't bring myself believe that that perfect smooth expanse was no more than I thin film of water over solid earth. I believed it was an opening into some fathomless space. Sometimes, seeing the tiny ripples caused by my approach, I thought the puddle impossibly deep, a bottomless sea in which the lazy coil of a tentacle and gleam of scale lay hidden, with the threat of huge bodies and sharp teeth adrift and silent in the far-down depths. And then, looking down into reflection, I would see my own round face and frizzled hair against a featureless blue sweep, and think instead that the puddle was the entrance to another sky. If I stepped in there, I would drop at once, and keep on falling, on and on, into blue space. The only time I would dare walk though a puddle was at twilight, when the evening stars came out. If I looked in the water and saw one lighted pinprick there, I could slash through unafraid--for if I should fall into the puddle and on into space, I could grab hold of the star as I passed, and be safe. Even now, when I see a puddle in my path, my mind half-halts--though my feet do not--then hurries on, with only the echo of the though left behind. What if, this time, you fall?”

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“And I tell you what, L.J.; you see all these people you haven't seen for twenty years, and there's this split second when you meet somebody you used to know, and you think 'My God, he's changed!,'and then all of a sudden, he hasn't- it's just like the twenty years weren't there, I mean" he rubbed his head vigorously, struggling for meaning--"you see they've got some gray, and some lines, and maybe they aren't just the same as they were, but two minutes past that shock, and you don't see it anymore. They are just the same people they always were, and you have to make yourself stand back a ways to see that they aren't eighteen anymore”

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“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.”

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“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 , looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, “No.”

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“—¿Te imaginas? —murmuró en algún momento de la madrugada—. ¿Sabes lo duro que es estar así con alguien y no encontrar jamás su secreto? —Sí —respondí pensando en Frank—. Lo sé. —Lo suponía. —Me tocó el pelo—. Y de pronto... recuperar la seguridad. Decir y hacer lo que quieras, sabiendo que es lo correcto. —Decir «te amo» y decirlo con todo el corazón —añadí suavemente. Sin saber cómo, me descubrí acurrucada contra él, con la cabeza en el hueco de su hombro. —Durante tantos años he sido tantas cosas, tantos hombres diferentes... —Tragó saliva y cambió de posición—. Era tío para los hijos de Jenny, hermano para ella y su marido, «milord» para Fergus, «señor» para mis arrendatarios. «Mac Dubh» para los hombres de Ardsmuir y «MacKenzie» para los otros sirvientes de Helwater. Después, Malcolm en la imprenta y Jamie Roy en los muelles. Me acarició lentamente la cabellera. —Pero aquí —concluyó en voz tan baja que apenas pude oírle—, aquí, contigo en la oscuridad... no tengo nombre. —Te quiero— le dije.”

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