Quotes About Experience

Knowing from experience how difficult it was to distract Frank's attention from this sort of discussion, I simply picked up his hand, wrapped his fingers about the stem of the glass and left him to his own devices.

Diana Gabaldon

He had enough experience in the business of prayer to recognize an answer when it showed up, though, however unwelcome.

can tell you that nobody knows what being married's going to be like until you find yourself in the midst of it.

along. It was a week after we had set out, in a

Rain was roaring on the tin roof now, and lightning struck close by, blue-white and sharp with ozone. We rode it together, forked and light-blind, breathless, and the thunder rolled through our bones.

the good man's only singularity lies in his approving welcome to every experience the looms of fate may weave for him

I had never deflowered anyone before.

Fair enough," I whispered, and drained the cup, the shreds of tea leaf strong and bitter on my tongue.

Still, I reflected, there was no way of imagining beforehand what having a child was like – no power of the mind was equal to the knowledge of just what the birth of a child could do, wresting lives and wrenching hearts.

took a small sip

You'll not know how it is, to live among strangers for so long." "Won't I?" I said, with some sharpness. He glanced up at me, startled, then smiled faintly, looking down at the coverlet. "Aye, maybe ye will," he said. "Ye change, no? Much as ye want to keep the memories of home, and who ye are—you're changed. Not one of the strangers; ye could never be that, even if ye wanted to. But different from who ye were, too.

Suddenly the confusing image he had sought so desperately came back unbidden; Brianna's face, with its broad, clean bones, blue eyes set slantwise about a long, straight nose. But Brianna's face grown older, weathered to bronze, rough-cut and toughened by masculinity and experience, blue eyes gone black with a murderous rage. Jamie Fraser

I felt sick when I thought of the end—but I really wanted to remember how. How it felt, and how I did it, so maybe I can do it again, with Roger.

Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. But what is it that the old women see? We see necessity, and we do the things that must be done. Young women don't see—they are, and the spring of life runs through them. Ours is the guarding of the spring, ours the shielding of the light we have lit, the flame that we are.

Live with Highlanders long enough, and every damn rock and tree meant something! Perhaps

It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet.

Voir les années s'inscrire sur ton corps et ton visage me procure une joie immense, Sassenach : Parce qu'elles signifient que tu vis.

Christ," he said in an undertone, bending down so I could hear him. "And she's been a woman less than a full day, too! Have ye been givin' her lessons, Sassenach, or are women just born wi' it?" "Natural talent, I expect

I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ just came." The need to find out as much as I could made me add the little else I knew. "I think—I think it has something to do with being able to fix your mind on a certain person who's in the time you go to." Her

I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ am not quite sure, to tell you the truth. Perhaps it is only an effort to reconcile my memories of last night with the Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ actuality of the experience?

tent for a day and a night. The tent shook and heaved, and voices

Is it true - that I won't forget? He paused for a moment, hand on her hair. Aye, that's true, he said softly. But it's true, too, that it willna matter after a time.

I don't know. She said you're born with the lines of your hand—with a life—but then the lines change, with the things you do, and the person you are.