9
" YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind. You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it. "
― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
12
" You go into a situation with an expectation,' his uncle Hal had told him once, during a discussion of military tactics. 'You should know what you want to happen, even if what you want is no more than your own survival. That expectation will dictate your actions.
'Since,' his father had neatly interposed, 'you might do something different, if you only wanted to get out alive, than you would if your primary desire was to keep a majority of your troops alive. And something else again, if what you wanted was to defeat an opposing commander and damn the cost. "
― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)
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" Bless Thou, O God, the dwelling,” he said, “And each who rests herein this night; Bless Thou, O God, my beloved ones In every place wherein they sleep; In the night that is to-night, And every night; In the day that is to-day, And every day. May this sacred iron be witness To the love of God and the guarding of this house. "
― Diana Gabaldon , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9)