“They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.”
“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”
“That day I vowed to myself that I would never, ever again give that bitch the satisfaction of hearing me beg her to stop beating me.”
“A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.”
“My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it”
“I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.”