A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6) Quotes

Highlanders make the truest friends—if only because they make the worst enemies.

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn’t always a misfortune—so long as you didn’t actually die of it.

To fight on the winning side was one thing; to survive, quite another.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is.
There’s the always preexisting, and having no end. There’s the notion of being all powerful—because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies.
And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return.
And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

They do say that God protects fools—but I think even the Almighty will lose patience now and then.

The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.

In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you.

All I want is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you—just because I am.

A Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases.