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Quotes About Safety

Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
~ Denver Moore
Ye need not be scairt of me, he said softly. Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye. - Jaime
~ Diana Gabaldon
Lord that she might be safe. She and my children.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children. Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ye gave me a child, mo nighean donn, he said softly, into the cloud of my hair. We are together for always. She is safe; and we will live forever now, you and I. He kissed me, very lightly, and laid his head upon the pillow next to me. Brianna, he whispered, in that odd Highland way that made the name his own.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor of anyone here, so long as I'm with ye.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He wished to cover her with his body, possess her-for if he could do that, he could pretend to himself that she was safe. Covering her so...he might protect her. Or so he felt, even knowing how senseless the feeling was.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You're the world I have," she murmured, and then her breathing changed, and she took him down with her into safety.
~ Diana Gabaldon
And sometimes, I whispered to him, I wish it could be you inside me. That I could take you into me and keep you safe always. His hand, large and warm, lifted slowly from the bed and cupped the small round swell of my belly, sheltering and caressing. You do, my own, he said. You do.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Anybody messes with the girls, we'll take care of him right smart," the elder Wurm assured Ian. "It's not that hard," the other said honestly. "Break just one of them bastards' noses with a hoe handle and the rest of 'em settle right down.
~ Diana Gabaldon
At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Lord, that she might be safe, he prayed. She and the child.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Often the best tool is the most dangerous. One doesn't hesitate to use it on that account; one merely makes sure to take adequate precautions.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Had it been this way where she came from? Had fires and food held back a jungle darkness, kept away leopards instead of bears? Had light and company given comfort, and the illusion of safety? For illusion it had surely been—fire was no protection against men, or the darkness that had overtaken her. I had no words to ask.
~ Diana Gabaldon
What if I cannot keep ye safe?... You and the rest of them? I shall try wi all my strength, Sassenach, and I dinna mind if I die doing it but what i should die too soon - and fail? You won't. 'll try not. If I die dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Don't be afraid," he whispered into my hair. "There's the two of us now." I felt warm, soothed, and safe.
~ Diana Gabaldon
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~ Diana Gabaldon
there is protection in numbers. And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule.
~ Diana Gabaldon
But her father was gone, replaced by a violent stranger; a man who had her face, but could not understand her heart, a man who had taken both family and home from her, and not satisfied with that, had taken love and safety too, leaving her bereft in this strange, harsh land
~ Diana Gabaldon
I tried to ignore the conversation going on behind me, to lose myself instead in the memory of Jamie hewing bark and squaring logs, of sleeping in his arms under the shelter of a half-built wall, feeling the house rise up around me, enclosing me in warmth and safety, the permanent embodiment of his embrace. I always felt safe and soothed by this vision, even when I was alone on the mountain, knowing I was protected by the house he had built for me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Don't be afraid," he whispered into my hair. "There's the two of us now." I felt warm, soothed, and safe for the first time in many days.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I want to protect ye, Sassenach—spread myself over ye like a cloak and shield you and the child wi' my body.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Put not your trust in princes'?
~ Diana Gabaldon