Perrotta Fraser Quotes

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me. ~ Dawn Fraser

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way. ~ Laura Fraser

An incredulous look spread across his face. "Fer fook's sake, Emma--don't tell me ye haven't done the nasty, yet? What's the matter wi' yeh?"

I punched him in the arm. "Shut up," I hissed. "I have no intention of discussing this with you. You're--You're just a child!"

I stomped back into the kitchen.

"A child who's plainly gettin' more than you," he yelled after me. ~ K.C. Dyer

Brave' covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people's lives - generals tend to go in for that sort - to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy - to the sort of thing that will make a man sweat and tremble and throw up ... and go and do what he thinks he has to do anyway. ~ Diana Gabaldon

... Because that's what privilege is-the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person. ~ Tom Perrotta

Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he added softly.

I continued staring at him, dumbstruck. Whatever I had been expecting, it wasn't this. Seeing my openmouthed expression, he continued lightly. "When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman'"

I started toward him, and he backed away, talking rapidly. "I said to myself, 'She's mended ye twice in as many hours, me lad; life amongst the MacKenzies being what it is, it might be as well to wed a woman as can stanch a wound and set broken bones.' And I said to myself, 'Jamie, lad, if her touch feels so bonny on your collarbone, imagine what it might feel like lower down...'"

He dodged around a chair. "Of course, I thought it might ha' just been the effects of spending four months in a monastery, without benefit of female companionship, but then that ride through the dark together"--he paused to sigh theatrically, neatly evading my grab at his sleeve--"with that lovely broad arse wedged between my thighs"--he ducked a blow aimed at his left ear and sidestepped, getting a low table betw ~ Diana Gabaldon

You're the best man I ever met," I said. "I only meant...it's such a strain, to try and live for two people. To try to make them fit your ideas of what's right...You do it for a child, of course, you have to, but even then, it's dreadfully hard work. I couldn't do it for you - it would be wrong even to try."
I'd taken him back more than a little. He sat for some moments, his face turned half away.
Do ye really think me a good man?" he said at last. There was a queer note in his voice, that I couldn't quite decipher.
Yes," I said, with no hesitation. Then added, half jokingly, "Don't you?"
After a long pause, he said, quite seriously, "No, I shouldna think so."
I looked at him speechless, no doubt with my mouth hanging open.
I am a violent man, and I ken it well," he said quietly. He spread his hands out on his knees; big hands, which could wield a sword and dagger with ease, or choke the life from a man. " So do you - or ye should."
You've never done anything you weren't forced to do!"
No?"
I don't think so." I said, but even as I spoke, a shadow of doubt clouded my words. Even when done from the most urgent necessity, did such things not leave a mark on the soul?

{Claire Fraser & Jamie Fraser. Drums of Autumn} ~ Diana Gabaldon

I do not intend to be one of those who bemoan little results, while resting in the faithfulness of God. My cue is to take hold of the faithfulness of God and USE THE MEANS necessary to secure big results. ~ James O. Fraser

The tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines. ~ Clara Fraser

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour. ~ Laura Fraser

Thanks to the fictional character named Fraser, in a well-loved Scottish novel, Alexander's existence on the grounds of Culloden had become its own bit of Hell. ~ L.L. Muir

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music. ~ Brooke Fraser

if ye bed wi' a vixen, ye must expect to get bit. ~ Diana Gabaldon

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately. ~ Brendan Fraser

In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. ~ Brendan Fraser

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them. ~ Tom Perrotta

all that time I save in body hair removal I devote to revolution ~ Janet Fraser

I haven't been one since I did a film called (coughs) Encino Man (laughing). After two or three runs with Pauly Shore, I had enough. Watching this film in 3D as far as rollercoasters go really fills it for me. ~ Brendan Fraser

And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a damn flower garden. What d'ye think I am, a man or a bumblebee? Would ye wash yourself, Sassenach, so I can get within less than ten feet of ye? ~ Diana Gabaldon

That trick's worth a new hat any day, youngster (hence the term hat trick) ~ George MacDonald Fraser

Before man can explore outer space he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind. ~ Merlin Fraser

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. ~ Diana Gabaldon

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity. ~ George MacDonald Fraser

I dinna mean to interruupt ye, Sassenach" he whispered in my air. "But would ye like a bit of help we that? ~ Diana Gabaldon

The Gospel net never breaks; whosoever will may come ~ Fraser Young

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you ... I have no name. ~ Diana Gabaldon

When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble. ~ Fraser Young

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself, or never even thinking them in the first place. ~ Tom Perrotta

Some subjects mixed well with weed, but Chemistry wasn't one of them. ~ Tom Perrotta

It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.
The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense ~ George MacDonald Fraser

I was born for you" -Claire Fraser, Outlander ~ Diana Gabaldon

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart
and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach? ~ Diana Gabaldon

It was nothing really, just a passing shadow. And Eve had lived long enough to know that it was foolish to worry about a shadow, everybody had one, it was just the shape your body made when the sun came out. ~ Tom Perrotta

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

You said you could tear me limb from limb without touching me," I said. "You were right, damn you."
"I am sorry," he whispered again, but this time he reached for me, and held me tight against him.
"That I loved you? Don't be sorry for that," I said, my voice half muffled in his shirt. "Not ever. ~ Diana Gabaldon